Allison Saft

Wren Southerland's reckless use of magic has cost her everything. She's been dismissed from the Queen's Guard and separated from her best friend: the girl she loves. So when a letter arrives from a reclusive lord, asking Wren to come to his estate, Colwick Hall, to cure his servant of a mysterious illness, she seizes her change to redeem herself. The mansion is crumbling, icy winds haunt the caved-in halls, and Wren's eccentric host forbids her from...

A cemetery full of the restless dead. A town so wicked it has already burned twice, with the breath of the third fire looming. A rural, isolated bridge with a terrifying monster waiting for the completion of its summoning ritual. A lake that allows the drowned to return, though they have been changed by the claws of death. These are the shadowed, liminal spaces where the curses and monsters lurk, refusing to be forgotten.