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In 1910, 11-year-old Iris Villarca lives with her dad at Rawblood, a lonely house on Dartmoor. Iris and her dad are the last of these name. The Villarcas always expire young, bloodily. Iris recognizes it's because of an congenital disease that means she must be firmly isolated. Papa told her so. Forbidden to talk with other children or the servants, denied her one friend, Iris grows up in solitude. But she reads catalogs. And one sunlit autumn day, beside her mother's grave, she causes the reality from her dad. The condition is biologically impossible. A rest to repay a darker magic formula. The Villarcas are haunted, through the decades, by her. She actually is white, skeletal, protected with scars. Her roots are a enigma, but her goal is clear. Whenever a Villarca marries, when they love, when they may have a child - she comes, and loss of life uses. Iris makes her dad a guarantee: to stay alone all her life. However when she's 15, she breaks it. The results of her choice are immediate and horrific. Iris' story is interwoven with days gone by, the voices of the deceased - Villarcas, considered by her. Iris' grandmother collections sail from Dover to Italy with a appointed companion, to invest her last years in the sun before consumption takes her. Instead she satisfies betrayal and a fate worse than loss of life. Iris' dad, his medical career in ruins, conducts unconscionable tests to find how she travels in the Villarca blood. Iris' mom, pregnant, walks the halls of Rawblood whispering to her, coaxing her to come. As the narratives converge, Iris seeks her out in a confrontation that shatters her former and her fact, disclosing the chasm in Iris' own fractured identity. Who is she? What does she desire? The answer is more horrendous and stranger than Iris could have imagined.
