The Last Heir to Blackwood Library

Weaves a spell of darkness that’s mysterious and magical,and binds it with a knot of deathless love. –New York Times bestselling author Susanna Kearsley An atmospheric and heartbreaking tale of lossdark magic and the power of lovethis brilliant book will stay with you long after the last page. –Constance Sayersauthor of The Ladies of the Secret Circus In post-World War I Englanda young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets… With the stroke of a pentwenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworthowner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbeyor of the ancient bloodline from which she’s descended. With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great Warshe warily makes her way to her new home. The abbey is forebodingthe servants reserved and suspicious. But there is a treasure waiting behind locked doors–a magnificent library. Despite cryptic warnings from the staffIvy feels irresistibly drawn to its dusty shelveswhere familiar works mingle with strangeesoteric texts. And she senses something else in the library tooa presence that seems to have a will of its own. Rumors swirl in the village about the abbey’s previous ownersabout ghosts and cursesand an enigmatic manuscript at the center of it all. And as events grow more sinisterit will be up to Ivy to uncover the library’s mysteries in order to reclaim her own story–before it vanishes forever. Lushatmospheric and transportingThe Last Heir to Blackwood Library is a skillful reflection on memory and female agencyand a love letter to books from a writer at the height of her power.