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by Caitlin Starling
A lush, poisonous Southern Gothic set in Reconstruction-era North Carolina, where a young woman tends her family's crumbling estate and the deadly yellow jessamine that grows wild around it. Secrets, obsession, and botanical menace intertwine as she confronts the violence lurking beneath genteel surfaces. Starling's prose is as intoxicating as the flowers themselves.
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