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The Daughters
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About The Book
Reeling from the dual deaths of her estranged father and ex-fiancé, Genevieve Tompkins has dropped out of her PhD program in New York City and is looking for a chance to start over in Wilton Springs, a faded Victorian spa town in upstate New York. Utilizing her background as an archivist, she is hired to catalogue the papers of the prominent Wilton family, who trace their lineage back to the founders of the town. But as she digs into their records, Genevieve discovers that the family’s pharmaceutical business and their personal lives have been fraught with a history of tragedy. She also uncovers a series of disturbing disappearances and suspicious deaths among the women of the town.
Three centuries earlier, Wilton Springs was the site of a brutal witch trial–a fact which someone has gone to extreme lengths to erase from historical record. As Genevieve explores the connections between the modern disappearances and the town’s ugly past, she becomes entangled in a web of conspiracy, where the line between superstition and reality begins to blur, and she fears she may become the next woman to go missing from Wilton Springs. . .
Blending elements of Gothic fiction and folk horror, The Daughters is a literary thriller that will keep readers guessing how the mysteries of the distant past may reverberate and resurface in the sinister and atmospheric present.
Product Details
- Publisher: The Mysterious Press (March 17, 2026)
- Length: 336 pages
- ISBN13: 9781613166789
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"Spellbinding—a novel that braids homespun folk horror, conspiracy-theory paranoia, and full-blooded heartbreak. Readers of Gothic suspense will rejoice, certainly, but The Daughters should enchant book clubs, too; it's that rare thriller that you want to thrust into a friend's hands and say, 'Read this right now and tell me what you think.'"
– A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
"Dark, gripping, and atmospheric, The Daughters is a haunting exploration of buried secrets, corrupt power, and the deadly cost of greed. I couldn’t put it down!"
– Lauren Nossett, author of The Professor
“Filled with unexpected turns and revelations for the reader as well as the historian-heroine.”
– Joyce Carol Oates on The Bequest
“Joanna Margaret’s [fiction] will burrow under your skin and live forever in your darkest dreams.”
– BUST on A Darker Shade of Noir
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