Description
When librarian Poe Markham takes the job at Thornchapel, she only wants two things: to stay away from Thornchapelβs tortured owner, Auden Guest, and to find out what happened to her mother twelve years ago. It should be easy enoughβkeep her head down while she works in the houseβs crumbling private library and while she hunts down any information as to why this remote manor tucked into the fog-shrouded moors would be the last place her mother was seen alive. But Thornchapel has other plans for her…
As Poe begins uncovering the houseβs secrets, both new and old, sheβs also pulled into the seductive, elegant world of Auden and his friendsβand drawn to Audenβs worst enemy, the beautiful and brooding St. Sebastian. And as Thornchapel slowly tightens its coil of truths and lies around them, Poe, Auden and St. Sebastian start unravelling into filthy, holy pleasure and pain. Together, they awaken a fate that will either anoint them or leave them in ashesβ¦
From the author of the USA Today bestselling New Camelot series comes an original fairy tale full of ancient mysteries, lantern-lit rituals, jealousy, money, murder, sacred torment, and obsessions that last for lifetimes…