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She spent fifty years pruning the world of monsters. Now, she has one last secret to dig up. Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. January 1992. To the staff at Valley Hospice, Jessica Freeman is just another patient fading into the winter night—a frail, eighty-one-year-old woman with paper-thin skin and a quiet demeanor. But Jessica has never been just an old woman. She is a retired gardener. And for fifty years, her garden was the world, and her weeds were the men who hurt the powerless.

A recluse and a young woman discover that the scars of life are no match against an act of love. Iowa, 1903. All of Monticello believes Otis Taylor has been away fostering his musical genius. But the truth is that his father exiled him long ago, rejecting Otis's appearance and the scars that...

This white-knuckled conclusion to The Brilliance of Stars takes readers on a breathless adventure from the speakeasies of America to the Horse Guards Parade in London, an ancient cemetery outside Paris, and back to the Eastern European strongholds where the Vales’ tragedy first began. “Fate...