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Your next gothic horror obsession, perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic and A Dowry of Blood
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THE UNMISSABLE GOTHIC HORROR EVENT OF 2026 A LIFE IN LIMBO. A SIN SO SWEET. AN IMMACULATE DECEPTION. I feel the bond that has been created between me and him - this one made of shadows, the one who pulses in my depths and who promises...
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From debut author Isabela Livino comes the gothic horror event of 2026, perfect for fans of Mexican Gothic, The Hacienda and A Dowry of Blood
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THE UNMISSABLE GOTHIC HORROR EVENT OF 2026
A LIFE IN LIMBO. A SIN SO SWEET. AN IMMACULATE DECEPTION.
I feel the bond that has been created between me and him - this one made of shadows, the one who pulses in my depths and who promises to fulfil my yearning...
Pernambuco, Brazil, 1877. Raised in a deeply religious household, Madalena knows Dante's Inferno by heart and fears her mother's reaction as much as she fears God. When she falls pregnant with a child conceived in sin, her mother issues a threat: marry or surrender the baby.
Confident that the father, the dashing Leandro Neves, will propose, Madalena sets off to his sprawling estate. After a storm wrecks her carriage, she awakens in Leandro's crumbling mansion, tended to by the magnetic Doctor Lobo. Leandro is there... but he is no longer the charming poet she knew. He's silent. Obsessed. Always watching.
Strange perfume haunts a locked room. Pages vanish from books. Jewels lie untouched in a forgotten wardrobe. And mirrors begin disappearing after Madalena sees something - or someone - ghastly in the reflection.
Leandro is unravelling. Doctor Lobo may be hiding something even darker. Trapped in a decaying house of secrets, Madalena must uncover the truth before the men around her destroy her, and before the hell she fears becomes the one she's living in...
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ISBN: 9781399633185
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 03 September 2026
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Gollancz
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 320
About the Author
Isabela Livino studied philosophy at the University of Rochester before receiving a master's degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. A native of Pernambuco, Brazil, she currentlylives in Connecticut with her husband, their two Caribbean-born coconut retrievers, and the river ducks. An Immaculate Deception is her debut novel.
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