New York Times bestselling author Andrew Joseph White returns with the transgressive gothic horror of our time! Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all. London,1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Societyand sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. According to MotherheΓÇÖll be married by the end of the year. It doesnΓÇÖt matter that heΓÇÖs needed a decade of tutors to hide his autism; that he practices surgery on slaughtered pigs; that he is a boynot the girl the world insists on seeing. After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriageSilas is diagnosed with Veil sicknessΓÇöa mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madnessΓÇöand shipped away to BraxtonΓÇÖs Finishing School and Sanitorium. The facility is coldthe instructors mercilessand the students either bloom into eligible wives or disappear. When the ghosts of missing students start begging Silas for helphe decides to reach into BraxtonΓÇÖs innards and expose its guts to the worldΓÇöif the school doesnΓÇÖt break him first. Featuring an autistic trans protagonist in a historical settingAndrew Joseph WhiteΓÇÖs much-anticipated sophomore novel does not back down from exposing the violence of the patriarchy and the harm inflicted on trans youth who are forced into conformity.