Ell Potter
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A novel of innocence, young love, and gothic mystery that is a sapphic reimagining of Mary Shelley's life, and a wonderfully imaginative exploration of the roots of her literary masterpiece, Frankenstein.
Europe, 1816. A volcanic eruption in Indonesia envelopes the continent in ash and clouds. Amid the gloom of this "year without summer," eighteen-year-old Mary Shelley, her lover Percy Bysshe Shelley, their baby boy William, and her stepsister Claire...
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"Combining history, the occult, human greed, and a touch of feminism, this is a fine addition to the gothic genre." -ALA's Booklist on The Last Heir to Blackwood Library
In the midst of the Napoleonic Wars and the rise of the floriography craze in Europe, two sisters separated at birth are bound together by a secret language of flowers passed down to them by the mother they never knew. When Cornelia leaves her cruel uncle's home to join Napoleon's...