This Vicious Hunger

From the author ofWild and Wicked Thingscomes a dark gothic fantasy about intoxication, obsession and a desperate hunger for knowledge-whatever the cost.

Thora Grieve finds herself destitute and an outcast after the sudden death of her husband, but a glimmer of hope arrives when a family friend offers her the chance to study botany under a famed professor. Once at the university, Thora becomes entranced by a mysterious young woman, Olea, who emerges each night to tend to the plants in the p...