Blackwicket (Dark Hall #1)

From award-winning author Bea Northwick comes a sizzling, haunting Gothic tale of fractured magic, monstrous love, and family legacies steeped in blood.

Home is where the curses are.

In the coastal town of Nightglass. Blackwicket House looms on the cliffs, far from the charming streets bustling with wealthy visitors seeking to experience a bit of real magic, legal or not. With Fiona Blackwicket, its sole caretaker, recently deceased, it stands empty - a dangerous thing for Blackwicket House to be.

Compelled out of hiding by the death of her estranged sister, Eleanora Blackwicket arrives at her infamous family home with intentions to hastily bury Fiona then return to her life on the run. But her plans are waylaid when the Brom, a black-market magic organization, catches wind of her presence and seeks to exploit her rare talent, one all Blackwicket women are born with - the ability to eat curses. 

Newly suspicious of the circumstances surrounding her sister’s death, and with little other choice, Eleanora ventures into Nightglass’ glamorous criminal underworld, rife with corrupt magic, in search of answers, knowing the Brom has an eye on more than her unique skillset. They want Blackwicket House and every horrible thing inside it. 

Complicating things is the arrival of Victor Harrow, a ruthless anti-magic detective deeply familiar with Eleanora’s past sins and hellbent on bringing her to justice. But there’s more to Inspector Harrow than his vicious methods and unnerving games of cat and mouse. A brutal personal history links him to Eleanora’s family and their darkest secret, one the house keeps in its bones.

One that could set all of its monsters free.