7 stories
Villette
After a family disaster, Lucy Snowe leaves England for the fictional European city of Villette to teach at a girls' school. There she encounters adventure, romance, and emotional turmoil as she navigates relationships with the enigmatic Professor Paul Emanuel and the charming Dr. John Graham Bretton. Drawing from Brontë's own experiences in Brussels, this introspective tale explores loneliness, unrequited love, and one woman's quest for independence in a foreign land.
Rouge
From the critically acclaimed author of Bunny comes a horror-tinted, gothic fairy tale about a lonely dress shop clerk whose mother’s unexpected death sends her down a treacherous path in pursuit of youth and beauty. Can she escape her mother’s fate—and find a connection that is more than skin deep?
Possession
A pair of young scholars investigate the lives of two Victorian poets. Following a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time. Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once a literary detective novel and a triumphant love story.
The Secret History
In the ivy-covered walls of an esteemed New England college, a group of eccentric and intellectually gifted students, led by the enigmatic Julian Morrow, form a tight-knit clique that delves into esoteric studies and indulges in decadent rituals. As they delve deeper into their studies of Greek classics, their experiments in morality spiral out of control, leading to a shocking murder that fractures their once unbreakable bond. Richard Papen, an outsider drawn into their inner circle, narrates the tale of obsession, guilt, and the unraveling of secrets that threaten to consume them all.
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo
A newly divorced writer named Monique is tasked with writing a biography for a Hollywood legend, Evelyn Hugo. Evelyn recounts her fruitful life story and mysterious past including her 7 husbands, and the woman she loved.
The Raven Cycle
Blue has spent the majority of her sixteen years being told that if she kisses her true love, he will die. When Blue meets Gansey's spirit on the corpse road, she knows there is only one reason why - either he is her true love, or she has killed him. Determined to find out the truth, Blue becomes involved with the Raven Boys, four boys from the local private school (led by Gansey) who are on a quest to discover Glendower - a lost ancient Welsh King who is buried somewhere along the Virginia ley line. Whoever finds him will be granted a supernatural favour. Never before has Blue felt such magic around her. But is Gansey her true love? She can't imagine a time she would feel like that, and she is adamant about not being the reason for his death. Where will fate lead them?
Bunny
Samantha Heather Mackey is an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at Warren University. In fact, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort - a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other 'Bunny'. But then the Bunnies issue her with an invitation and Samantha finds herself inexplicably drawn to their front door, across the threshold, and down their rabbit hole.
