The Bells of Whitmore House

For as long as anyone can remember, the Whitmores and Blackwells have hated one another.

No one remembers why.

Only that every generation inherits the feud along with the stories that explain it.

Stories of betrayal.

Stories of murder.

Stories of promises broken beneath old trees and blood spilled for reasons long forgotten.

And every generation tells the story differently.

Nova Whitmore grew up listening to them all.

She never expected to become one herself.

When Nova dies at twenty-one, she expects to become what every Whitmore woman fears becoming-

another photograph on the walls of Whitmore House.

Another black ribbon tied to the front door.

Another story whispered at family gatherings long after the details have faded and only the grief remains.

Instead, she wakes in the past.

With every death, Nova is sent farther back through the lives of the women who came before her, reliving the stories she once believed and discovering that history has a way of changing depending on who survives to tell it.

Because every generation remembers a different beginning.

Every generation swears it knows the truth.

And somewhere in every lifetime waits a Blackwell she knows she should hate.

A Blackwell she somehow cannot.

As Nova journeys closer and closer to the year 1763, she begins to suspect that the greatest family story ever told may also be the greatest family lie ever believed.

Some feuds are inherited.

Others are rewritten.

And somewhere in the distance, the bells of Whitmore House are ringing once more.