My Darling Dreadful Thing

Roos Beckman has never been entirely alone: Ruth, a centuries-dead spirit visible only to her, is her closest companion. A séance brings the wealthy widow Agnes Knoop into Roos’s life, offering a different kind of intimacy and an escape from her familiar surroundings. At Agnes’s inherited estate, however, comfort comes with unsettling company. Illness, strange smells and disturbing figures in the chapel suggest that the house is keeping its own secrets. Roos’s attraction to Agnes grows even as the atmosphere turns more threatening. When someone is murdered, her poverty and history of supposed instability make her an easy suspect. Defending herself means confronting a haunting that may be more complicated than anyone around her is prepared to believe.