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Wildthorn
Seventeen-year-old Louisa Cosgrove longs to break free from her dull life as a dutiful Victorian daughter. But her dreams become a nightmare when, instead of starting a new life as a companion to the daughter of a rich family, she finds herself locked up in Wildthorn Hall, an asylum for the insane. Has someone betrayed her? If so, why? And the most important question of all…will she ever get out?
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Whisper My Name
Meriel Garland is living a lonely and restricted life in London with her grandfather, a remote, forbidding figure. Rebellion leads to her discovering a social gathering where at last she can enjoy herself. But her pleasure is short-lived when she is introduced to the dark world of séances. What is the significance of the message that appears to have come from beyond the grave?
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