A gothic romance about necromancy, obsession, and the perilous seduction of rewriting fate... Witness the origin of Mary Shelley's historic masterpiece over the pivotal, haunted summer spent with Lord Byron and Percy Shelley.

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Seventeen-year-old Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin is no stranger to scandal—after all, her mother was the original feminist firebrand and her father won't stop publishing about it. But Mary has ambitions of her own: she wants to write, to love dangerously, and above all, to choose the shape of her future. When she's caught in an illicit entanglement with the infamous poet Percy Shelley, her father threatens to banish her to a dreary life as a governess in Ireland. That is, until Mary discovers her true inheritance: a blood-bound grimoire hidden in her dead mother's belongings and a family secret steeped in resurrection.

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With ink on her fingers and a monster brewing in her chest, Mary flees England, determined to bring her mother back from the dead and rewrite the future that was stolen from them both. But necromancy is an art of sacrifice—and as Mary deepens her command of this ancient alchemy, her obsession corrodes everything in her path: her friendships, her first love, and the line between creation and corruption.

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Coming August 2027.