Poisoned Pen Press:
Naperville: 2023
First American edition, Trade paperack, New,
356 pp.


Finally available stateside. I read Ward’s first novel SUNDIAL and was much impressed. She’s good. This one is stacked on the night-stand as well. “Young Iris Villarca is the last of her family's line. They are haunted by "her," a curse passed down through the generations that marks each Villarca for certain heartbreak and death. For generations, the Villarcas have died young, under mysterious circumstances.
But Iris dares to fall in love, and the consequences of her choice are immediate and terrifying. As the world falls apart around her, she must take a final journey back to Rawblood where it all began, and where it must all end...” #71608

Price: $17.99