The Silverton Estate Duology Book 2
For over a century, Silverton University has stewarded the Tudor manor, herb quadrants, and ancient cedar groves bequeathed by Elizabeth Silverton, the Estate’s enigmatic founder. Sarah Caldwell, the current curator, has raised her adopted daughter Stella in the manor’s labyrinthine archives and on its garden paths.
Now twenty-one, Stella is no longer the child Sarah brought home. When the University divests Rosemere — Elizabeth’s locked cottage at the edge of the cedars — Sarah purchases it. Inside, Stella’s grandmother Helen, a folklorist, discovers letters that suggest the Estate’s gentle mythology has concealed something far more troubling. A confession in Victorian hand. Records in botanical cipher. Evidence that the beings who moved through the garden’s margins did not intervene equally for everyone.
What Helen translates and Stella reads in the cedar groves themselves will require them to reckon with the cost of Stella’s own rescue, and the children for whom no rescue came.
Adoptee Author: Islay Corwin
Publication Year: 2025
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