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Erin A. Craig
House of Salt and Sorrows
"Step inside a fairy tale."--Stephanie Garber, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Caraval Get swept away by the New York Times bestseller that's sold over 100,000 copies. As one by one her beautiful sisters mysteriously die on their isolated island estate, Annaleigh must unravel the curse that haunts her family. Be careful who you dance with... In a manor by the sea, twelve sisters are cursed. Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor with her sisters and their father and stepmother. Once there were twelve, but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the last--the plague, a plummeting fall, a drowning, a slippery plunge--and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods. Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that her sister's deaths were no accidents. The girls have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls, dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers, and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Because who--or what--are they really dancing with? When Annaleigh's involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies, it's a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family--before it claims her next. House of Salt and Sorrows is a spellbinding novel filled with magic and the rustle of gossamer skirts down long, dark hallways. Get ready to be swept away. "An eerie, lovely Twelve Dancing Princesses retelling full of ghosts and gods and a fascinating waterfront world and I'm reading it from behind my fingers."--Melissa Albert, New York Times bestselling author of The Hazel Wood
The sixth-born of the twelve Thaumas sisters, who grows suspicious that her sisters' deaths are no accident and investigates the curse said to haunt her family.
The youngest of Annaleigh's surviving sisters, one of the three young "Graces" alongside Honor and Mercy.
A charming, mysterious young man Annaleigh meets amid the sisters' secret nightly balls, and the center of her growing romance.
A childhood friend of Annaleigh's and the son of the family's longtime maid, apprenticing under the island's light-keeper.
Annaleigh's eldest surviving sister, and next in line to inherit their father's dukedom of the Salann Islands.
It's a gothic retelling of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," reimagined by Erin A. Craig with a seafaring setting, a family curse and a murder mystery.
Yes. It's the first book in Erin A. Craig's "Sisters of the Salt" series, followed by House of Roots and Ruin (2022), which follows one of Annaleigh's younger sisters, Verity.