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Weaves a spell of darkness thats mysterious and magical and binds it with a knot of deathless loveNew York Timesbestselling author Susanna Kearsley on A Lullaby for Witches

In postWorld War I England a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets

With the stroke of a pen twentythreeyearold Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey or of the ancient bloodline from which shes descended With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great War she warily makes her way to her new home

The abbey is foreboding the servants reserved and suspicious But there is a treasure waiting behind locked doors a magnificent library Despite cryptic warnings from the staff Ivy feels irresistibly drawn to its dusty shelves where familiar works mingle with strange esoteric texts And she senses something else in the library too a presence that seems to have a will of its own

Rumors swirl in the village about the abbeys previous owners about ghosts and curses and an enigmatic manuscript at the center of it all And as events grow more sinister it will be up to Ivy to uncover the librarys mysteries in order to reclaim her own storybefore it vanishes forever

Lush atmospheric and transporting The Last Heir to Blackwood Libraryis a skillful reflection on memory and female agency and a love letter to books from a writer at the height of her power

Look for these other gothic mysteries from Hester Fox

• The Witch of Willow Hall
• The Widow of Pale Harbor
• The Orphan of Cemetery Hill
• A Lullaby for Witches