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In such a electrifying literary debut, a woman who channels the lifeless for a living crosses a dangerous collection when she falls deeply in love with one of her clients, whose wife died under strange circumstances. In an unnamed city, Eurydice works for the Elysian Society, an exclusive service that allows grieving clients to reconnect with lost loved ones. She and her fellow staff, known as "bodies", wear the discarded possessions of the lifeless and swallow pills called lotuses to summon their spirits - numbing their own brains and burning off themselves in the process. Edie has been a body at the Elysian Society for five years, a unique record. Her success is the result of careful detachment: she looks for refuge in the lotuses' anesthetic results and distances herself from making personal connections with her clients. However when Edie channels Sylvia, the lifeless wife of recent widower Patrick Braddock, she becomes enthusiastic about the glamorous couple. Despite the murky circumstances adjoining Sylvia's drowning, Edie breaks her own guidelines and pursues Patrick, moving much deeper into his life and summoning Sylvia beyond your Elysian Society's wall space. After many years of hiding beneath the lotuses' dulling impact, Edie discovers that the lines between her own wants and those of Sylvia have started to blur, and calls for increasing risks to keep Patrick within her grasp. Instantly, she confirms her tranquil life unraveling as she grapples not only with Sylvia's growing influence and the questions adjoining her loss of life, but with her own long-buried secrets. A tale of desire and obsession, deceit and dark secrets that defies easy categorization, The Property is a seductive, absorbing listen that builds to a shattering, remarkable conclusion.
