num_pages: 403
description: In a manor by the sea twelve sisters are cursed.Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor a manor by the sea with her sisters their father and stepmother. Once they were twelve but loneliness fills the grand halls now that four of the girls' lives have been cut short. Each death was more tragic than the lastthe plague a plummeting fall a drowning a slippery plungeand there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed by the gods.Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that the deaths were no accidents. Her sisters have been sneaking out every night to attend glittering balls dancing until dawn in silk gowns and shimmering slippers and Annaleigh isn't sure whether to try to stop them or to join their forbidden trysts. Because whoor whatare they really dancing with?When Annaleigh's involvement with a mysterious stranger who has secrets of his own intensifies it's a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her familybefore it claims her next.
language: English
title: House of Salt and Sorrows
publisher: Delacorte