The Haunting of Bly Manor meets House of Salt and Sorrows in award-winning author Kyrie
McCauley's contemporary YA gothic romance about a dark family lineage the ghosts of grief and
the lines we'll cross for love. The Sleeping House was very much awake . . . Days after a
tragedy leaves Marin Blythe alone in the world she receives a surprising invitation from Alice
Lovelace-an acclaimed horror writer and childhood friend of Marin's mother. Alice offers her a
nanny position at Lovelace House the family's coastal Maine estate. Marin accepts and soon
finds herself minding Alice's peculiar girls. Thea buries her dolls one by one hosting a
series of funerals while Wren does everything in her power to drive Marin away. Then Alice's
eldest daughter returns home unexpectedly. Evie Hallowell is every bit as strange as her
younger sisters and yet Marin is quickly drawn in by Evie's compelling behavior and ethereal
grace. But as Marin settles in she can't escape the anxiety that follows her like a shadow.
Dead birds appear in Marin's room. The children's pranks escalate. Something dangerous lurks in
the woods leaving mutilated animals in its wake. All is not well at Lovelace House and Marin
must unravel its secrets before they consume her.
