For more than one hundred years, creative souls have
traveled to Upstate New York to work under the captivating
spell of the Bosco estate. Cradled in silence, inspired by
the rough beauty of overgrown gardens and crumbling
statuary, these chosen few fashion masterworksβand have
cemented Boscoβs reputation as a premier artistsβ colony.
This season, five talented artists-in-residence find
themselves drawn to the history of Bosco, from the extensive
network of fountains that were once its centerpiece but have
long since run dry to the story of its enigmatic founder,
Aurora Latham, and the series of tragic events that occurred
more than a century ago.
Ellis Brooks, a first-time
novelist, has come to Bosco to write a book based on Aurora
and the infamous summer of 1893, when wealthy, powerful Milo
Latham brought the notorious medium Corinth Blackwell to the
estate to help his wife contact three of the coupleβs
children, lost the winter before in a diphtheria epidemic.
But when a sΓ©ance turned deadly, Corinth and her alleged
accomplice, Tom Quinn, disappeared, taking with them the
Lathamsβ only surviving child.
The more time she
spends at Bosco, the more Ellis becomes convinced that there
is an even darker, more sinister end to the story. And sheβs
not alone: biographer Bethesda Graham uncovers stunning
revelations about Milo and Corinth; landscape architect
David Fox discovers a series of hidden tunnels underneath
the gardens; poet Zalman Bronsky hears the long-dry
fountainβs waters beckoning him; and novelist Nat Loomis
feels something lingering just out of reach.
After a
bizarre series of accidents befalls them, the group cannot
deny the connections between the long ago and now, the
living and the dead . . . as Ellis realizes that the tangled
truth may ensnare them all in its cool embrace.
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