Confessed by Candlelight

Sometimes things are exactly as they seem.

When Anna Clarikson arrives in Taunsbury, she has every intention of obeying her parents’ wishes for a quick marriage to Hector Wardsley. Which shouldn’t be difficult so long as she keeps everyone believing the Clariksons are still rich. Thanks to this misconception and Anna’s upbringing in high society, friendship in Taunsbury seems easy—until Anna suspects that her new friends, brother and sister Silas and Frances Bartlett, and even Hector himself, all seem to be keeping secrets of their own.

She’s as curious to uncover their duplicity as she is to uncover why her fiancé’s manor, Dalithkane, seems to harbor exactly the sort of mystical dangers from her favorite novels—and why Hector’s Conservation magic is failing to keep them at bay. Perhaps her own lies are driving her mad. Perhaps everyone in Taunsbury is just as sinister as she believes. But Anna cannot know until she confronts the perils in Dalithkane, sorts fact from fiction, and learns the true price of insincerity.

Uncover the truth and shed light on the shadows in this reverse retelling of Northanger Abbey.