"Don t trust anyone at Blackwood Abbey." Deep in the misty, brooding hills of Yorkshire lies a crumbling estate, housed in a former abbey. When Ivy Radcliffe is named the heir to the mysterious family home, no one is more surprised than Ivy herself. She’s never even heard of Blackwood Abbey. And there’s one condition to her inheritance: she must live out the rest of her days at the remote Abbey. Ivy, still aching over the loss of her brother in the Great War and scrounging to make ends meet in post-war London, accepts. But Blackwood is strange—wrong, somehow. The staff are barely civil, discourage Ivy from exploring her new home, and are guarded and skittish when she asks questions about its peculiar history. Who was the Mad Monk whose legend swirls in low whispers around the village? Then she discovers the enormous library at the heart of the Abbey. The library that everyone—seemingly deliberately—has kept secret