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|reviewer= Mary Waterfall
|genre= Paranormal
|summary= What a wonderfully chilling and atmospheric, spine tingling novel. From the opening pages, you know that something terrible underpins this deliciously gothic and compelling tale, and that bad things are going to happen. Victorian values at their darkest, murky desires and the need to protect reputation at all cost colliding fiercely with fairies, changelings and mysterious disappearances. A thoroughly enjoyable and gratifyingly scary foray into human desires, battles for power and cultural decimation. This is historical realism at its best, spiced with a touch of the uncanny, mystery and superstition.
|rating=5
|buy=Yes
|isbn=978-1472234780
|website= https://annamazzola.com/
|videocover=CHECKED1472234782|aznuk=1472234782|amazonukaznus=<amazonuk>1472234782</amazonuk>}}
Audrey, a complex mix of flights of fancy and seriousness, wanting, needing, to be more than what everyone expects of her, escapes from the straightjacket of her home. Where every action, every thought, every yearning is controlled by her father, who only once in his life threw caution to the wind and married way beneath him for love. Now a widower and remarried, he has rigorously returned to upholding what is right, what is proper, the bastion of doing what is expected.
