Bellflower's Bloom

By Lillian Colette Hughes

Maira Amsel died last winter. Since then, she's spent the days in her crumbling hometown, Rustgill, working in her father's taxidermy shop and ignoring the hole in her neck that never closes. This doesn't stop the townsfolk from staring anyhow, and when Maira's not pretending them away, she finds refuge in the abandoned railyard nestled in the woods. A visit gone awry proves she wasn't as alone as she thought. Something's horribly wrong in Bellflower Yard, a force of corruption that starts with splintered ruins and ends with a walking, rotting deer: the yard's heart that won't stop beating. Running out of time, Maira chases the mystery with Sable, the son of Rustgill's infamous hunting guide, and Bonnie, a cheery newcomer from New York City with more secrets than she lets on. Nothing in Rustgill's woods knows how to stay dead, and Maira keeps following breadcrumbs back to her mother, the victim of heart complications when Maira was young--or so her father told her. As the wound in her neck tears wider, Maira is faced with two fates: figure out why no one talks about the yard, or succumb to the decay that's dragging her and the town to the grave--for good.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0F64HM6BV
• ISBN13: 9798316194582
• Release Date: April 2025
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 378 Pages
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.9" x 5.3"