A Cruel Twist of Fate
Author: Askwith, H. F.
ISBN: 9780241629642
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2024
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 196mm x 131mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
And Then There Were None meets The Inheritance Games, with a heavy dash of The Woman in Black, in this gloriously gothic YA mystery-thriller
When seventeen-year-old Helena is sent to be a governess at Archfall Manor - a beautiful but crumbling manor house, perched at the edge of a causeway in the North Sea - she feels confident she will know how to deal with the esteemed but eccentric Cauldwell family who own it. But it quickly becomes clear that the Cauldwells are hiding more than Helena could ever have dreamed of.
A series of sinister events come to a head the night of a great storm, which washes away the only path back to the mainland - and reveals in the morning that there has been a murder... quickly followed by another.
Suspicions and paranoia quickly run rampant. Someone has dark motivations in mind - and a killer's instinct to enact them.
But the Cauldwell's aren't the only ones keeping secrets. Helena has a very important one of her own - and soon she begins to wonder whether forces beyond her control might be willing her to enact her own dark plan . . .
Just how far will she go to get what she deserves?
ISBN: 9780241629642
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year First Published: 2024
Pages: 320
Dimensions: 196mm x 131mm x 20mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description:
And Then There Were None meets The Inheritance Games, with a heavy dash of The Woman in Black, in this gloriously gothic YA mystery-thriller
When seventeen-year-old Helena is sent to be a governess at Archfall Manor - a beautiful but crumbling manor house, perched at the edge of a causeway in the North Sea - she feels confident she will know how to deal with the esteemed but eccentric Cauldwell family who own it. But it quickly becomes clear that the Cauldwells are hiding more than Helena could ever have dreamed of.
A series of sinister events come to a head the night of a great storm, which washes away the only path back to the mainland - and reveals in the morning that there has been a murder... quickly followed by another.
Suspicions and paranoia quickly run rampant. Someone has dark motivations in mind - and a killer's instinct to enact them.
But the Cauldwell's aren't the only ones keeping secrets. Helena has a very important one of her own - and soon she begins to wonder whether forces beyond her control might be willing her to enact her own dark plan . . .
Just how far will she go to get what she deserves?
