Down Among the Sticks and Bones

Jack and Jill have grown up inside their parents’ competing ideas of the perfect daughter. Jacqueline must be obedient and immaculate; Jillian gets the adventures her father wanted for a son. An impossible staircase offers the twins a way out, but the world below it has expectations of its own. In the Moors, where a vampire and a scientist exercise very different kinds of power, the sisters begin choosing who they want to become. Their paths lead toward different masters, loyalties and ideas of love. This Wayward Children prequel follows the years before their return home, exploring the dangerous distance between finding a place to belong and accepting the price it asks.