At the Bottom of the Garden

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Keep out of the hands of children. An adult fairytale with a wicked aunt, gifted children and a vengeful housekeeper. Clara Woods is a killer and perfectly fine with it, too. No harm, no foul if she takes a couple of lives to make her own existence a little bit better. At the bottom of the garden is a flowerbed, long overgrown, where her late husband rests in peace or so she always thought. Until the girls arrived. Lily and Violet are her adolescent nieces, recently orphaned and in urgent need of care. Raising teenagers is certainly not what Clara had envisioned for herself, but her funds are drying up and the girls come with a neat sum attached. There is only one problem: both girls are untrained witches, with newly heightened powers due to inheriting theirmother's power when she died. Lily can literallyseehow peopleare feeling. And young Violet... well. Violet can seethe dead man at the bottom of the garden. She can see them all, in factandcall them back to existence. Soon Clara is surrounded by pesky apparitions, and at war with the gifted girls in her care. The latter have become a liability and knowfarmore than they should.

Author Bio

Camilla Bruce was born in central Norway and grew up in an old forest, next to an Iron Age burial mound. She has a master's degree in comparative literature, and has co-run a small press that published dark fairy tales. Camilla currently lives in Trondheim with her son and cat.