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Elena Mendes thought she understood what “old money” was. She knew her boyfriend Ross Enderbough was rich. Like, “old money” rich. She knew he was the scion of some eccentric British line that predates the whole United States. She knew he didn’t really get on with his family, and that he fled to America to study free of their influence.
Ross has been summoned to Enderby, the family mansion built as a monastery centuries ago, for an exclusive, mysterious family gathering that happens only once a generation. Spouses and partners aren’t invited, but Ross has asked Elena to come anyway for moral support.
But there are secrets in the mouldering old pile, and terrors in the unkempt woods on the estate. And Elena slowly comes to realise that “old money” means so much more than she’d ever imagined…
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Adrian Tchaikovsky is the author of the acclaimed ten-book
Shadows of the Apt series, the
Echoes of the Fall series, and other novels, novellas and short stories including
Children of Time (which won the Arthur C. Clarke award in 2016), and its sequel,
Children of Ruin (which won the British Science Fiction Award in 2020). He lives in Leeds in the UK and his hobbies include entomology and board and role-playing games.
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Elena Mendes knew her British boyfriend Ross Enderbough was “old money” rich, but when he brings her to the family mansion for a mysterious once-a-generation gathering, secrets and terrors come to light, and Elena slowly realises that “old money” means so much more than she’d ever imagined…
