Voice Like a Hyacinth

Five young women eager for success rely on the unspeakable to make their dreams come true in a chilling novel about martyrdom ritual and obsession by the author of We Ate the Dark . Art student Jo Kozak and her fellow classmates and best friends Caroline Finch Amrita and Saz are one another’s muses—so close they have their own language and so devoted to the craft that they’ll do anything to keep their inspiration alive. Even if it means naively resorting to the occult to unlock their creativity and to curse their esteemed if notoriously creepy professor. They soon learn the horrible price to be paid for such a transgressive ritual. In its violent aftermath things are changing. Jo is feeling unnervingly haunted by something inexplicable. Their paintings once prodigious and full of life are growing dark and unhealthy. And their journey together—as women students and artists—is starting to crumble. To right the wrong they’ve done these five