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Clara Woods likes to get what she wants. And if she has to kill for it, so be it. Cheating husband caught with his mistress? Clara has no problem offing them and burying them in her overgrown garden. Everyone thinks they ran off together, so no one knows her crime until her nieces arrive.

Violet and Lily are orphaned when their very wealthy parents tragically die on a mountain climbing trip. Their only living relative is Aunt Clara, who is less than thrilled with this until she sees this as a way to get her hands on her dead brother's fortune. She could use the funds to help launch her diamond jewelry business, something she has always dreamed of starting. Clara's plan seems foolproof until she discovers one of the girls' secrets. Violet can see and speak to ghosts, including Clara's dead husband and his mistress. When the girls discover the crimes, Clara has no choice but to isolate them from everyone to keep her misdeeds under wraps.

I love a good gothic, dark ghost story like this. Camilla Bruce uses alternating points of view between Clara, Violet, and Lily, which allows the reader to get inside the heads of each character. Bruce weaves together witchcraft, folklore, ghost stories, and a fun twist on revenge to create almost a fairytale-like story, with Aunt Clara as the evil "step-parent." The pacing allows the story to build, the girls to understand their powers, and the reader to see Clara for precisely who she is. This book arrives on shelves January 28, 2025. Thank you to Del Rey Books for an arc of this novel.