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About the Book[]
- Genres: Dark Fantasy, Horror
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Description[]
In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.
Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last--the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge--and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.
Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that her sister's deaths were no accidents. The girls have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Because who--or what--are they really dancing with?
When Annaleigh's involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it's a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family--before it claims her next. House of Salt and Sorrows is a spellbinding novel filled with magic and the rustle of gossamer skirts down long, dark hallways. Get ready to be swept away.
"An eerie, lovely Twelve Dancing Princesses retelling full of ghosts and gods and a fascinating waterfront world and I'm reading it from behind my fingers."--Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood
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Characters[]
The Twelve Daughters:
- Ava - Died of the plague
- Octavia - Died from a fall off of a ladder in the library
- Elizabeth - Found floating in the bathtub.
- Eulalie - Died from a fall off of a cliff
- Camille, age 19
- Annaleigh, age 18
- The Triplets, age 16
- Rosalie
- Ligeia
- Lenore
- The Graces
- Honor
- Mercy
- Verity - age 6, their Mother died right after her birth
Duke of the Salann - Their father
Morella - Their very young step-mother (only been married for about 4 months)
Hanna - The Girl's maid.
Fisher - Hanna's Son and apprentice to the Light-keeper
Edgar - Apprentice to the watchmaker
Cassius - Mysterious young man
Gods and Goddesses:
- Pontus - King of the sea
- Versia - "House of Seven Moons" - Queen of the night
- Vaipany - lord of sky and sun
- Seland - ruler of earth
- Arina - Goddess of love
Ticksters and Harbingers Imortals
- Kosamaras - Versia's half-sister, not wholly a goddess but an immortal. Harbinger of Madness and Nightmares.
- Viscardi - God of unholy bargains
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