Del Rey
February 2025
On Sale: January 28, 2025
Featuring: Lily; Violet
384 pages ISBN: 059372495X EAN: 9780593724958 Kindle: B0D2VWG1W2 Trade Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
A murderess becomes the guardian of two very unusual girls in this mesmerizing gothic novel from acclaimed author Camilla Bruce.
Clara Woods is a killerβand perfectly fine with it, too. So what if she takes a couple of lives to make her own a little bit better? At the bottom of her garden is a flower bed, long overgrown, where her late husband rests in peaceβor so sheβs always thought.
Then the girls arrive.
Lily and Violet are her nieces, recently orphaned after their affluent parents died on an ill-fated anniversary trip. In accordance with their parentsβ will, the sisters are to go to their closest relativeβwho happens to be Clara. Despite having no interest in children, Clara agrees to take them, hoping to get her hands on some of the girlsβ assetsβnot only to bolster her dwindling fortune but also to establish what she hopes will be her legacy: a line of diamond jewelry.
Thereβs only one problem. Violet can see the dead man at the bottom of the garden. She can see all of Claraβs ghosts . . . and call them back into existence. Soon Clara is plagued by her victims and at war with the gifted girls in her care. Lily and Violet have become a liabilityβand they know far more than they should.