“Weaves a spell of darkness thats mysterious and magical, and binds it with a knot of deathless love.”New York Timesbestselling author Susanna Kearsley on A Lullaby for Witches

In postWorld War I England, a young woman inherits a mysterious library and must untangle its powerful secrets

With the stroke of a pen, twenty-three-year-old Ivy Radcliffe becomes Lady Hayworth, owner of a sprawling estate on the Yorkshire moors. Ivy has never heard of Blackwood Abbey, or of the ancient bloodline from which shes descended. With nothing to keep her in London since losing her brother in the Great War, she warily makes her way to her new home.

The abbey is foreboding, the servants reserved and suspicious. But there is a treasure waiting behind locked doors: a magnificent library. Despite cryptic warnings from the staff, Ivy feels irresistibly drawn to its dusty shelves, where familiar works mingle with strange, esoteric texts. And she senses something else in the library too, a presence that seems to have a will of its own.

Rumors swirl in the village about the abbeys previous owners, about ghosts and curses, and an enigmatic manuscript at the center of it all. And as events grow more sinister, it will be up to Ivy to uncover the librarys mysteries in order to reclaim her own storybefore it vanishes forever.

Lush, atmospheric and transporting, The Last Heir to Blackwood Libraryis a skillful reflection on memory and female agency, and a love letter to books from a writer at the height of her power.

Don’t miss A MAGIC DEEP & DROWNING,Hester Fox’s lush, enchanting reimagining of The Little Mermaid,where a young woman in 1650 Friesland must face a deadly choice between love, duty, and a mythic legacy…

Look for these other gothic mysteries from Hester Fox:

• The Book of Thorns
• The Witch of Willow Hall
• The Widow of Pale Harbor
• The Orphan of Cemetery Hill
• A Lullaby for Witches