The Beauchamp estate is drowning. Not in water, but in a relentless green tide of kudzu that swallows gardens, porches, and memories with a slow, patient hunger. For Maeve Beauchamp, returning to her ancestral home is a surrender to this elegant ruin. But the decay is more than just neglect; it’s a generational malady of the spirit, a "Wasting Sickness" that has claimed the women in her family for a century.
When a violent storm churns the land, it unearths a secret from the muddy banks of the a broken porcelain doll, its single glass eye staring out from a tomb of tangled roots. This is no ordinary toy. Its discovery awakens the house’s oppressive sorrow, intensifying the Wasting and pulling Maeve, her pragmatic mother Cora, and her secretive grandmother Eleanor into a web of buried history.
Haunted by visions of a tragic, long-forgotten love affair and a terrible crime, the three women are forced to confront the truth that has poisoned their bloodline. To save themselves and break the curse, they must unravel a century-old sin of jealousy, sacrifice, and murder. But the past does not give up its ghosts easily, and the house itself will fight to keep the terrible secret of what the kudzu hides.
A haunting, atmospheric tale in the tradition of Southern Gothic, Where The Kudzu Hides The Bones is a story of generational trauma, the complex and often painful bonds between mothers and daughters, and the quiet, desperate war against the secrets that refuse to stay buried.
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