![]() Violet takes on the care and entertainment of young Seeley, who has troubling accidents after Dorian brings him to stay. ![]() Violet also has an unusual talent, to communicate with, and summon, bees. ![]() Anna Bess's different attitude starts to change that. Though Laney (now a young mother) is also a slave, Violet does not treat her as one and avoids thinking about that part of their lives. She also takes responsibility for her eight-year-old cousin Seeley (heir to a large property), who is sent to live with them.Īfter her mother's death, Violet was raised by a slave, Aunt Permilla, and grew up with Permilla's blood kin Laney as a close confidante and friend. He married the widow Sluder, leaving Violet to deal with a stepmother addicted to laudanum and her spoiled daughter Anna Bess. Seventeen-year-old Violet is still grieving over the death of her beloved twin brother Rush in the war, when her father sets off to fight, after a sudden wedding. But it's new and fresh in many different ways, even aside from the paranormal element that's key to the plot. The Mirk and Midnight Hour by Jane NickersonĪt first you think The Mirk and Midnight Hour (whose title is taken from The Ballad of Tam Lin) is same old, same old - a YA historical in which a young Southern belle falls for a wounded Union soldier. ![]()
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