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Specters in the Glass House
Christian Gothic suspense
Specters in the Glass House
368 pages · First published 2024
In 1921 Wisconsin, Marian Arnold retreats to her family’s estate after her parents’ deaths and the collapse of their brewing fortune under Prohibition. Her late mother’s glass butterfly house offers little refuge when disturbing visions and murders marked by dead butterflies leave her questioning what she can trust. A century later, researcher Remy Shaw assists an elderly biographer investigating Marian’s life and the unsolved crimes of the Butterfly Butcher. With help from Marian’s descendant, Remy follows a trail whose sinister echoes reach into the present. Deeply unsettling and threaded with Christian hope, this dual-timeline mystery invites a long evening of family secrets, uncertain perceptions, and danger beneath beautiful surroundings.
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Serial murders, strangulation, dead bodies, and threats to life; disturbing visions and apparently supernatural occurrences; mental illness, including schizophrenia, and mental health stigma; suicide-related themes; infant loss, parental death, and grief; wartime trauma; dead butterflies and animal remains; mild romantic kissing.
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Butterfly pea tea shifts color beneath the lemon, echoing the glasshouse’s beauty and the uncertainty of what first meets the eye.
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- Combine butterfly pea tea, honey syrup, and water over ice. Add lemon juice last to shift the color, then stir.
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Bourbon Tea Toddy
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Hot tea, bourbon, and honey offer a little fireside comfort against the manor’s chilling visions and accumulating secrets.
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