Thorn: An Immortal Tale

by Frances Gordon

She shall fall into a profound sleep which shall last a hundred years... For several hundred years the famous Ingram family has lived under a curse -- the taint of homicidal madness which manifests itself in the females every 80 or 90 years -- and Imogen's parents are terrified that she is its next victim. When the family gather for the funeral of Imogen's cousin, Edmund, a grisly incident convinces everyone that the curse has indeed struck again, and that Imogen must be shut away from the world, perhaps for ever. But celebrity rarely goes hand in hand with privacy and Dan Tudor, the writer commissioned to produce a feature on the Ingram family, finds himself drawn in to a strange, tangled web surrounding the beautiful Imogen: a web spun by Thalia, Edmund's manipulative and calculating mother, who is laying dark and terrible plans. When Imogen is finally cast into the mysterious stupor from which it's feared she will never wake, and transferred to Thornacre, England's notoriously bleak mental institution, Thalia follows her. Donning a mask of friendship and seduction, she lures Dan to a remote cottage on Thornacre's outskirts where the horrifying culmination of her plan will take place. It seems that Dan is about to uncover what he's been searching for -- but it is more macabre and horrifying than anyone would have dared imagine...

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