The Last Heir to Blackwood Library

Ivy Radcliffe is twenty-three and living in London after the First World War. Her brother died in the fighting, and nothing else holds her to the city. Then a letter arrives: she has inherited Blackwood Abbey, a large estate on the Yorkshire moors, along with the title of Lady Hayworth.

Ivy travels north to a house and a family line she had never heard of. The household staff greet her with cryptic warnings, but she is drawn to the abbey's library all the same.

Ordinary books sit on the shelves beside strange, esoteric texts. Ivy also senses something in the room, a presence that seems to have a will of its own.

The book is a gothic ghost story set in 1920s England that mixes historical fiction with fantasy and the supernatural. The mood is atmospheric, and the library at its center suits readers who like stories about books.

To keep the inheritance and learn who she is, Ivy has to uncover what the library and her relatives have hidden for generations.