Maud Blyth has always longed for adventure. She expected plenty of it when she volunteered to serve as an old lady’s companion on an ocean liner, in order to help her beloved older brother unravel a magical conspiracy that began generations ago. What she didn’t expect was for the old lady in question to turn up dead on the first day of the voyage. Now she has to deal with a dead body, a disrespectful parrot, and the lovely, dangerously outrageous Violet Debenham, who’s also returning home to England. Violet is everything that Maud has been trained to distrust yet… Read more.
Trigger and Content Warnings
- Infidelity & spousal abandonment*
- Attempted sexual assault
- Emotional parental abuse recounted
- Suicide mentioned (secondary character)
- Alcohol consumption & drugging
- Blood & gore depiction, including minor self-injury for blood, dead bodies & emesis
- Death of parents in a car accident recounted
- Murder & attempted murder
- Kidnapping
- Knife violence
- Loss of autonomy (ghost possession)
Context : Violet is technically married to a man who abandoned her & stole her possessions; due to his disappearance, she is unable to dissolve their marriage and never reveals this to her love interest.
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