They call her the She-Wolf. France, 1312. Queen Isabella is a new mother. Her baby boy not only secures her ill-starred marriage but her own precarious future. And yet, she is terrified. A thirteen-generation curse hangs over her family. Can she free herself and her child from it? They call her hysterical. London, 1865 . The corridors of Bedlam Lunatic Asylum move like white serpents around Lois. The women here are all the same - more mad than when they entered its doors. But if sin is the cause of her illness, and her memories are the manifestations of insanity, then who is the little boy who calls her Mama ? They call her selfish. Brittany, 2026. Emma is preparing to marry Sam, a financier from New York. In the French countryside, they''ve rented a beautiful old castle for two weeks to unite their transatlantic families. But when her 16-year-old daughter Ivy steals a diamond intended for the wedding from the family archives, a dark force awakens...

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C.J. Cooke is a poet and internationally bestselling Edgar- and ITW-nominated gothic novelist, who has been published in 23 languages. She takes inspiration from real women she discovers in detailed historical research, and her books have been critically acclaimed for their atmospheric use of time and place.

Born in Belfast, C.J. has a PhD in Literature and teaches creative writing. She has been selected as a Waterstones' Book of the Month and BBC Radio 2 Book Club pick.

She lives by the coast with her husband, four children and a cocker spaniel.

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Exclusive limited edition first print run with a foiled board design and beautifully designed endpapers. Pre-order while stocks last.'Cooke is known for her ability to craft spellbinding tales filled with dread and terror, but also beauty' Scots Magazine Three women. Seven centuries. One unbreakable blood curse... It began in fire...

Paris, 1307. When eleven-year-old Princess Isabella of France watches four men burn at the stake, a dying knight curses her bloodline: love will destroy everything she holds dear.

It was forged in madness...

Bedlam, 1865. Lois wakes in Bedlam Asylum with no memory of who she is - only a precious red stone and the growing certainty that something ancient is hunting her.

Can it end before blood is spilled?

Present day. Artist Emma Harris arrives at a crumbling French château for her wedding and the exhibition of her life. But the walls remember everything, and something has followed her here.

Seven centuries of destruction. One woman left to fight.