When Verity receives word that the Duchess of Bloem - wife of a celebrated botanist - is interested in having Vertity paint a portrait of her son, Alexander, Verity jumps at the chance, but Camille won’t allow it. Forced to reveal ithe secret she’s kept for years, Camille tells Verity the truth one day: haunted by tragic childhood events, Verity is still seeing ghosts, she just doesn’t know it.

In a Manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed.

Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters. Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls’ lives have been cut short, each death more tragic than the last.