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 their mother's power when she died. Lily can literally see how people are feeling. And young Violet... well. Violet can see the dead man at the bottom of the garden. She can see them all, in fact and call 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 know far more than they should.

Reviews

'All the elegance and all the venom, like one of E. Nesbit'ssupernatural stories served with a side of arsenic.'Grady Hendrix,New York Timesbestselling author ofHow to Sell a Haunted House

'A propulsive novel with gorgeous prose and incredible characters you won't soon forget.'Gwendolyn Kiste, Bram Stoker Award-winning author ofReluctant ImmortalsandThe Haunting of Velkwood

'One gorgeously morbid gothic novel that's just as gleeful as it is gashlycrumb.'Clay McLeod Chapman, author ofWhat Kind of MotherandGhost Eaters

'Theatrical and deliciously dark, this book is pure magic'A.J. West, author ofThe Spirit Engineer

'Bruces unique cast of characters is both charming and terrifying. A young synesthetic musician, an even younger sensitive, a murderous aunt, and a houseful of furious ghosts its all here! A delightful read.'Louisa Morgan, author ofA Secret History of Witches

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.