Felix Ashe is sure of only one thing. In thirty days, on his eighteenth birthday, he will die. He might be the only one convinced of this, but the gruesome deaths of his three brothers before him seem to point to only one thing: a curse, one doomed to stop anyone inheriting his family's incredible fortune.
Felix doesn't care about money, or himself, particularly. It's hard to have a stake in the future when you know you haven't got one. But he does care about his little brother Nick, very much. And when an opportunity to break the curse appears to present itself, it's impossible not to heed its dark call.
Soon long-buried secrets will take Felix to the darkest underbelly of Jazz-Age New York, to the far-flung wilds of the Yorkshire moors and back again. And bound to everything is a deadly secret society who will either be Felix's downfall . . . or his one chance at redemption.
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The day that Mother told me about the telegram, I had thirty days left to live.1 - 1
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(@PenguinUKBooks, 19 January 2023, e-book, 400 pages, #ARC from the publisher via @ NetGalley)
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I loved this book so much. It's very dark in a delightful way. I liked books that use first person narrators as this can be a powerful form of storytelling and is certainly the case here. I enjoyed seeing events through Felix's eyes as he unravels his families darkest secrets. This is well-written and engaging. I didn't want to stop reading every time I picked it up. This is a terrific book.