Most characters are white, while many are inhuman. Periodic illustrations and excerpts from fictional supernatural texts provide concise exposition. Characters’ emotional connections create wonderful tension. Louisa must help Lee with a mystery of his own and prove he doesn’t deserve a grisly end-or discover if he does. Morningside, and the rest of the residents are. But soon Louisa uncovers just how supernatural the eerie proprietor, Mr. Haylam, and Louisa’s other new co-workers quickly befriend her. Once they arrive, the crone quickly transforms into the much more proper house matron and manager, Mrs.

On the way, they’re joined by fellow Coldthistle-bound travelers: a wealthy (if unpleasant) man and his charming nephew, Lee, who takes to Louisa right away despite the fact that he’s a guest and she’s to be a new servant. After fleeing an abusive, governess-training boarding school, Louisa scrapes by telling fortunes until she’s rescued from a sticky situation by a crone who promises employment at Coldthistle House. In a prologue, Louisa informs readers that she works for the Devil among other odd and cursed employees, cleaning up after the deaths of those who visit Coldthistle House. To uphold her end of the bargain, Louisa will have to rejoin his supernatural staff to venture to a gateway between worlds, a place of legend: the Tomb of Ancients.A runaway works at a boardinghouse for the damned in late-Georgian–period England. To save herself, Louisa is desperate enough to do whatever it takes-even if it means returning to Coldthistle House and striking another deal with Mr. With the evil influence of her father’s spirit growing stronger-trying to take over-Louisa knows she will be forced to pick a side in the coming war between the old gods, whether she’d like to or not. Religious zealots from the shepherd’s flock are gathering in the city, and ominous warnings are being left on Louisa’s doorstep.

(*Publishers Weekly)įree from the nightmares of Coldthistle House, Louisa and her friends have taken up a posh new London residence. The war between old gods and monsters comes to a thrilling climax in this final book in the “darkly delightful”* House of Furies series, from the New York Times bestselling author of Asylum. Tomb of the Ancients, the third and final book in the House of Furies trilogy, came out this past May and Wunderkind PR is graciously offering up a finished copy to one of my readers! Read more about the book below, and enter to win!

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