![]() ![]() The facility is cold, the instructors merciless, and the students either bloom into eligible wives or disappear. After a failed attempt to escape an arranged marriage, Silas is diagnosed with Veil sickness-a mysterious disease sending violet-eyed women into madness-and shipped away to Braxton’s Finishing School and Sanitorium. It doesn’t matter that he’s needed a decade of tutors to hide his autism that he practices surgery on slaughtered pigs that he is a boy, not the girl the world insists on seeing. ![]() According to Mother, he’ll be married by the end of the year. ![]() Violet-eyed mediums commune with spirits under the watchful eye of the Royal Speaker Society, and sixteen-year-old Silas Bell would rather rip out his violet eyes than become an obedient Speaker wife. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. New York Times bestselling author Andrew Joseph White returns with the transgressive gothic horror of our time! Mors vincit omnia. ![]()
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