Keep out of the hands of children. An adult fairytale with a wicked aunt, gifted children and a vengeful housekeeper.

Clara Woods is a killer – and perfectly fine with it, too. No harm, no foul if she takes a couple of lives to make her own existence a little bit better. At the bottom of the garden is a flowerbed, long overgrown, where her late husband rests in peace – or so she always thought. Until the girls arrived.

Lily and Violet are her adolescent nieces, recently orphaned and in urgent need of care. Raising teenagers is certainly not what Clara had envisioned for herself, but her funds are drying up and the girls come with a neat sum attached.

There is only one problem: both girls are untrained witches, with newly heightened powers due to inheriting their mother's power when she died. Lily can literally see how people are feeling. And young Violet... well. Violet can see the dead man at the bottom of the garden. She can see them all, in fact… and call them back to existence.

Soon Clara is surrounded by pesky apparitions, and at war with the gifted girls in her care. The latter have become a liability – and know far more than they should.