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Ivy Rowan, a young woman in her mid‑twenties, wakes from bed only to find the world transformed by a devastating influenza epidemic. While ill, she is visited by uninvited souls—ghosts of loved ones who appear to foretell death. On an October night, she meets her grandmother’s spirit, an omen that comes just hours before she learns her brother and father have killed a German soldier in retaliation for her older brother’s wartime death. As the pandemic spreads panic and societal norms collapse, Ivy drifts into a liberated, jazz‑filled atmosphere where people live in the present, terrified of the nightfall. With each new apparition, she realizes her own life will unravel again, and that deeper, other‑worldly revelations loom ahead.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Historical Fiction/20th Century Historical Fiction
Authors: Cat Winters
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