Nobody has a "normal? family, but Vesper Wright's is truly...something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never lookedback?mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchlyreligious community she grew up in meant she couldn't return. Butthen an envelope arrives on her doorstep.Inside is an invitation to the wedding of Vesper's beloved cousinRosie. It's to be hosted at the family farm. Have they made anexception to the rule? It wouldn't be the first time Vesper's beengiven special treatment. Is the invite a sweet gesture? An olivebranch? A trap? Doesn't matter. Something inside her insists shego to the wedding. Even if it means returning to the toxicenvironment she escaped. Even if it means reuniting with hermother, Constance, a former horror film star and forever ice queen.When Vesper's homecoming exhumes a terrifying secret, she'sforced to reckon with her family's beliefs and her own crisis of faithin this deliciously sinister novel that explores the way family ties canbind us as we struggle to find our place in the world.