{"product_id":"the-daughters-9781613166772","title":"The Daughters","description":"\u003cb\u003eA grieving archivist uncovers a strange connection between recent disappearances and a small New York town's history of witch trials in this new thriller from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bequest\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eReeling from the dual deaths of her estranged father and ex-fiancé, Genevieve Tompkins has dropped out of her PhD program in New York City and is looking for a chance to start over in Wilton Springs, a faded Victorian spa town in upstate New York. Utilizing her background as an archivist, she is hired to catalogue the papers of the prominent Wilton family, who trace their lineage back to the founders of the town. But as she digs into their records, Genevieve discovers that the family's pharmaceutical business and their personal lives have been fraught with a history of tragedy. She also uncovers a series of disturbing disappearances and suspicious deaths among the women of the town. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThree centuries earlier, Wilton Springs was the site of a brutal witch trial-a fact which someone has gone to extreme lengths to erase from historical record. As Genevieve explores the connections between the modern disappearances and the town's ugly past, she becomes entangled in a web of conspiracy, where the line between superstition and reality begins to blur, and she fears she may become the next woman to go missing from Wilton Springs. . . \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlending elements of Gothic fiction and folk horror, \u003ci\u003eThe Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e is a literary thriller that will keep readers guessing how the mysteries of the distant past may reverberate and resurface in the sinister and atmospheric present.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joanna Margaret\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Mysterious Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/17\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.75h x 5.99w x 1.35d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781613166772\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/26\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoanna Margaret\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Bequest\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e. Her short story \u003ci\u003eMalena\u003c\/i\u003e appears in \u003ci\u003eA Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers\u003c\/i\u003e, and she received her MFA from NYU, where Joyce Carol Oates served as her thesis advisor. Before turning to writing fiction, Joanna Margaret was a historian, with a PhD from the University of St. Andrews, whose previous writing and scholarly work focused on Florentine aristocrats in sixteenth-century France.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Joanna Margaret \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":47754054303901,"sku":"9781613166772","price":46.2,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_4f169901-0522-4384-9780-568ddbd9272a.jpg?v=1774332161","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/the-daughters-9781613166772","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}