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A Slow and Secret Poison


A Historical Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Gothic Fiction,
  • Sapphic Romance,
  • 1920s England
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Haunted English manors steeped in folklore and superstition
  • Slow-burn relationships shadowed by secrets and curses
  • Lush, atmospheric settings where the house feels alive
Publisher Description

In the early 1900s, a young gardener at a lush English manor falls in love with her employer whose past is shrouded in deadly secrets. 1922, Wiltshire: When Vee Morgan accepts the job of gardener at a crumbling stately home in southwest England, she's hoping it's a fresh start.

But Harfold Manor is shadowed by its own grief and the memories of long-faded glory, its rooms haunted by the only surviving member of the family, Lady Arabella Lascy. Vee is fascinated by her enigmatic new employer, a woman obsessed with the curse she believes has killed her family one by one and is coming for her next.

Her only hope for escape is a local folktale: the elusive dancing hare that gave her ancestor its blessing and the house its name. But even as Vee falls deeper under the thrall of Harfold and Lady Arabella, her own dark past finally catches up to her in this lush and atmospheric novel.

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