Rotten Parts

When the children of a cursed family welcome a stranger into their home, they find both fearsome loyalty and a deadly history, each one threatening to topple the walls of their broken home.
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Shunned by their neighbours and the nearby town, the Hase family has only ever known isolation. As the children grow into adulthood under the maddening neglect of their parents, each one bearing their own scars, they have no choice but to believe in the bars on their windows and the dampness of the ever-chilled hallways.
For Evan, his life has no hope of improvement. Cursed with a crippling disability from birth, he can no more quit the Hase Manor than he can leave his room unassisted. Every scarce moment he has left is spent under the sick gaze of the house, pining through his books and his daydreams.
Everything he and his siblings know, however, is thrown into disarray when a stranger arrives on their doorstep, begging for employment. Nobody knocks on the Hase's door, but there he is, ragged, disheveled, and mysteriously quiet about his past. Suddenly, the house is filled with fires again, warm drinks, and laughter. Evan's sister Petra can share her wordless obsession of the garden with someone who won't mock her; his brother Piers is relieved of the burden of being the eldest, always watching his disabled siblings; and Evan himself finds the impossibility of friendship a mere bad memory.
Eagre for the disruption of their family's curse, none of the Hase children want to see the secret that lurks beneath the quiet surface of their new friend, a secret that will haunt him, and everyone, to death.

Contains graphic depictions of gore, violence, and some scenes of sexuality

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