My Darling Dreadful Thing

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In a world where spirits can be summoned and secrets linger in the walls, Roos Beckman lives with a strange gift: a corpse-like companion named Ruth, visible only to her. When wealthy widow Agnes Knoop arrives and draws Roos into a web of séances and inherited mysteries, the two form a connection that feels both tender and dangerous. Together they travel to a crumbling estate haunted by an ill presence, nocturnal disturbances, and unsettling clues hidden in chapel stone and family lore—until a murder turns Roos into the prime suspect. Blending decadent gothic atmosphere with sapphic romance and psychological dread, this novel explores desire, grief, and the thin line between hysteria and truth as Roos fights to uncover what—or who—has been festering in the dark.

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