Amidst the devastation of IrelandΓÇÖs Great Famine,a young woman is salvaged from certain death when offered a mysterious position at a remote manor house haunted by a strange power and the horror of her own memories in this chillingly evocative historical novel braided with gothic horror and supernatural suspense for readers of Katherine ArdenΓÇÖs The Warm Hands of Ghosts and The Silence Factory by Bridget Collins. County Clare1848: In the scant few years since the potato blight first cast its foul shadow over IrelandMaggie OΓÇÖShaughnessy has lost everythingΓÇöher entire family and the man she trusted with her heart. Toiling in the Ennis Workhouse for paltry rationsshe can see no future either within or outside its wallsΓÇöuntil the mysterious Lady Catherine arrives to whisk her away to an old mansion in the stark limestone landscape of the Burren. Lady Catherine wants Maggie to impersonate her late daughterWilhelminaand hoodwink solicitors into releasing WilhelminaΓÇÖs widow pension so that Lady Catherine can continue to provide for the villagers in her care. In exchangeMaggie will receive freedom from the workhouseland of her ownand the one thing she wants more than either: a chance to fulfill the promise she made to her brother on his deathbedΓÇöto live to spite them all. Launching herself into the daunting taskMaggie plays the role of Wilhelmina as best she can while ignoring the villagersΓÇÖ tales of ghostly figures and curses. But more worrying are the whispers that come from within. Something in Lady CatherineΓÇÖs house is reawakening long-buried memories in MaggieΓÇöof a foe more terrifying than hunger or greedof a power that calls for blood and vengeanceand of her own role in a nightmare that demands the darkest sacrifice . . .