<p><strong>Ex-pagan and reluctantly clairvoyant reporter, Sara Wilde, thinks she escaped the curse of Wildefell Manor by planting shallow roots in Savannah.</strong> But Wildefell, her family's historic estate in idyllic Beaufort, South Carolina, still harbors a lurid secret.</p><p><br></p><p>When the brutal murders of her sister and grandmother send Sara back up the groaning steps of Wildefell, she discovers their bodies arranged in a manner reminiscent of Poe's Murders in the Rue Morgue. As corpses turn up all across the city, all mirroring victims in Gothic-era stories, and Sara begins to receive cryptic messages from the murderer, she realizes the curse blighting her family tree is branching out.</p><p><br></p><p>Plagued by premotions of the murders and the grotesque spirits of long-dead ancestors, Sara fears the only place she belongs is with the husk of her grief-stricken mother, in the asylum.</p><p><br></p><p>To break a story centuries in the making and stop a vicious killer, Sara must exhume the secrets of Wildefell Manor, or she'll risk losing both her family's legacy and her own mind.</p>