My Darling Dreadful Thing
384 Pages I Paperback
In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real?
Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruthâstrange, corpse-like, and dead for centuriesâis the only good thing in Roosâ life, which is filled with sordid backroom sĂ©ances organized by her mother. That is, until wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop attends one of these sĂ©ances and asks Roos to come live with her at the crumbling estate she inherited upon the death of her husband. The manor is unsettling, but the attraction between Roos and Agnes is palpable. So how does someone end up dead?
Roos is caught red-handed, but she claims a spirit is the culprit. Doctor Montague, a psychologist tasked with finding out whether Roos can be considered mentally fit to stand trial, suspects sheâs created an elaborate fantasy to protect her from what really happened. But Roos knows spirits are real; she's loved one of them. She'll have to prove her innocence and her sanity, or lose everything.
My Darling Dreadful Thing
384 Pages I Paperback
In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real?
Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruthâstrange, corpse-like, and dead for centuriesâis the only good thing in Roosâ life, which is filled with sordid backroom sĂ©ances organized by her mother. That is, until wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop attends one of these sĂ©ances and asks Roos to come live with her at the crumbling estate she inherited upon the death of her husband. The manor is unsettling, but the attraction between Roos and Agnes is palpable. So how does someone end up dead?
Roos is caught red-handed, but she claims a spirit is the culprit. Doctor Montague, a psychologist tasked with finding out whether Roos can be considered mentally fit to stand trial, suspects sheâs created an elaborate fantasy to protect her from what really happened. But Roos knows spirits are real; she's loved one of them. She'll have to prove her innocence and her sanity, or lose everything.
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384 Pages I Paperback
In a world where the dead can wake and walk among us, what is truly real?
Roos Beckman has a spirit companion only she can see. Ruthâstrange, corpse-like, and dead for centuriesâis the only good thing in Roosâ life, which is filled with sordid backroom sĂ©ances organized by her mother. That is, until wealthy young widow Agnes Knoop attends one of these sĂ©ances and asks Roos to come live with her at the crumbling estate she inherited upon the death of her husband. The manor is unsettling, but the attraction between Roos and Agnes is palpable. So how does someone end up dead?
Roos is caught red-handed, but she claims a spirit is the culprit. Doctor Montague, a psychologist tasked with finding out whether Roos can be considered mentally fit to stand trial, suspects sheâs created an elaborate fantasy to protect her from what really happened. But Roos knows spirits are real; she's loved one of them. She'll have to prove her innocence and her sanity, or lose everything.
