Dear Reader,
Lizzie Borden got a bad rap. Everyone thinks they know her, that she’s a murderer, that she killed her parents–there’s even a rhyme about it:
Lizzie Borden took an axe
And gave her mother forty whacks.
When she saw what she had done,
She gave her father forty-one.
But what if she had a reason? What if Lizzie killed her parents, not because she was a homicidal maniac, but because her parents were possessed by unspeakable evil? And that killing them was the only way to stop the horror growing within them from spreading to others?
This is the premise of Cherie Priest’s chilling and atmospheric dark historical fantasy novel, Maplecroft.
You won’t be able to put it down. And you’ll never look at Lizzie Borden the same way again.
-Anne Sowards
