"The Bluebeard fairy tale retold. . . ."
When seventeen-year-old Sophia Petheram's beloved father dies, she receives an unexpected letter. An invitation--on fine ivory paper, in bold black handwriting--from the mysterious Monsieur Bernard de Cressac, her godfather. With no money and fewer option[...]
"A Southern girl. A wounded soldier. A chilling force deep in the forest."
"All collide at night's darkest hour."
Seventeen-year-old Violet Dancey has been left at home in Mississippi with a laudanum-addicted stepmother and love-crazed stepsister while her father fights in the war--a war tha[...]