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1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A modern masterpiece this is a classic Gothic thrillerfantasy frombestselling author Erin A Craig about doomed love menacing ambition and the ghosts that haunt us forever

In a manor by the sea one sister is still cursed

Despite dreams of adventures far beyond the Salann shores seventeenyearold Verity Thaumas has remained at her familys estate Highmoor with her older sister Camille while their sisters have scattered across Arcannia

When their sister Mercy sends word that the Duchess of Bloemwife of a celebrated botanistis interested in having Verity paint a portrait of her son Alexander Verity jumps at the chance but Camille wont allow it Forced to reveal the secret shes kept for years Camille tells Verity the truth one day Verity is still seeing ghosts she just doesnt know it

Stunned Verity flees Highmoor that night andwith nowhere else to turnmakes her way to Bloem At first she is captivated by the lush luxurious landscape and is quickly drawn to charming witty and impossibly handsome Alexander Laurent And soon to her surprise a romance blossoms

But its not long before Verity is plagued with nightmares and the darker side of Bloem begins to show through its sicklysweet facade