Brooks, Elizabeth

Charity Woolf

When Georgia Wellington-Grub finds a manuscript mouldering away on her Great Uncle’s bookshelves she is drawn into a web of intrigue. Georgia is lured to Boughwinds Abbey where she meets Charity Woolf: a mysterious young woman in hiding from her relatives. Georgia is touched by Charity’s friendship, and by her vision for a purer life. But somebody else awaits Georgia within the Abbey’s gloomy walls. Mr. Montefiore’s ghost knows all about Georgia’s home in Traumund: the snowbound city of Mazurka where glittering soirées and moonlit murders are commonplace. Beguiled by Georgia’s dark imagination, Mr. Montefiore seeks to captivate her in turn and begin a new life in her imaginary land. Then Georgia’s dearest friend, Alyosha Brodsky, goes missing in Mazurka, and Georgia resolves to find him. But where should she turn for help in a world where monsters might be allies, and the sweetest smile can mask hideous intent?