How far would you go to bring back the one you love?
Eighteen-year-old Crissa Blackwood is mourning the brutal death of her soulmate, Emres Trovic.
Set in a university city obsessed with scientific intervention and the potential for magic, Crissa challenges her wealthy rival and his friends to spend a week sequestered in a remote mansion in the mountains to perform the most daring magical act they can. But Crissa has her own motive; she has stolen Emres' heart from his freshly buried corpse and seeks to bring him back to life.
As the group's experiments with magic grow bolder, strange things start happening around the house. The building's enigmatic resident, Loren, who seems to understand her better than anyone, knows something about it. But when the group is attacked, Crissa faces the ultimate choice: resurrect her lost love, or save her friends and risk losing Emres forever . . .
Have your heart ripped out with this exciting new gothic fantasy Unfortunate Creatures for a YA and crossover audience (16+), from Sunday Times bestselling author Holly Race. Frankenstein meets Starling House meets Poor Things, in which a girl challenges her rival to perform the most daring magical act they can in a remote mansion in order to bring her boyfriend back from the dead, only to fall for someone very much alive in the process . . .
TROPES
Obsessive Romance
Creepy Manor House
Morally Grey FMC
Love Triangle
Family Secrets
PRAISE FOR HOLLY RACE
'Luscious and luminous' Tasha Suri
'Slick, sensuous, yet sharp enough to cut' Lyra Selene
'Absolutely incredible' Francesca May
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