The Spirit Collection of Thorne Hall

A gothic tale of a young woman bound by the grief of her ancestors to dwell among the spirits of the dead in a home she can never escape, exploring how romantic love has the power to awaken the spirit, break the chains of the past, and open up a new future for fans of Starling House.

Elegy Thorne must never disturb the fourteen spirits that dwell in her family’s ancestral estate lest they reveal themselves to the world in murderous ways. And so she lives in quiet isolation with her withered father and broken stepmother, wearing elegant gowns handed down to her from a hundred years past and preserving the aging mansion just as it was at the turn of the twentieth century, the Gilded Age, when the spirits were first collected and bound within.

When a mischievous child spirit damages the manor, the Thorne family brings in their usual preservationist to manage their repairs—but with him comes his adult son, Atticus, a vibrant man full of life and ideas about modernization. Elegy is at once captivated by this outsider and a clandestine romance begins.

But this brief moment of passion and happiness in Elegy’s life is quickly extinguished when Atticus discovers the truth—not about the spirits, but about Elegy’s upcoming arranged marriage to a childhood friend who knows the truth about Thorne Hall and its otherworldly inhabitants. Torn between her desire to follow her heart and her duty to her family and its legacy, Elegy begins searching for a way to release the spirit collection back to the afterlife. Soon she discovers family secrets buried for more than a hundred years, as well as others far more recent that will change everything she thought she knew about the spirits, her life, and herself.