MOONSTONE

From award-winning bestseller Laura Purcell comes her YA debut, MOONSTONE, a sparkling, chilling gothic romance with real bite. This dark regency fantasy shot through with magic and love that will keep you up all night.

Following a scandal at Vauxhall pleasure gardens, Camille is sent away to her reclusive godmother, who keeps a strict watch over her and her own sickly daughter, Lucy. Camille must stay away from everything she has known until the scandal is forgotten, keeping strictly to the small farmhouse in the woods. Away from the corsetry and curtsies of polite society, Camille finds herself surprisingly... free. She is also strangely drawn to Lucy, a pale, fragile girl who dreams of stars, but has never left the farm. Yet as Camille and Lucy grow close and cross forbidden boundaries, the fine balance of their woodland home begins to shift: death stalks between the trees, claw-marks rake the doors and the moon rises to the song of a creature Camille has never heard before. Camille begins to realise her godmother was holding more than unladylike behaviour at bay. Laura Purcell is the Edgar Award nominated author of The Silent Companions, The Corset, Bone China, The Shape of Darkness, and the she contributed to the Sunday Times bestselling The Haunting Season. She is a former bookseller who lives in Colchester, Essex with her husband and pet guinea pigs.