Lady-sonia 17 10 27 Secretly Spying On His Aunt... -

Aunt Marguerite closed the glowing book. “She is curious. I see her shadow under the door.”

Aunt Marguerite was the family’s black sheep. A former stage actress who had married a reclusive art collector, she now lived in a crumbling manor called Thornwick, filled with dusty mirrors, ticking clocks, and secrets. Lady-Sonia 17 10 27 Secretly Spying On His Aunt...

The room was a sanctuary of oddities. Canvases leaned against every wall—portraits of people Sonia did not recognize, landscapes of places that did not exist. In the center stood a gilded chair, and upon it sat Aunt Marguerite, but transformed. Aunt Marguerite closed the glowing book

Her own face.

Lady-Sonia checked her appearance one last time. At seventeen, ten months, and twenty-seven days old, she considered herself an adult trapped in a girl’s body. Her mother, the Dowager Viscountess, disagreed, which is why Sonia had been sent to stay with her eccentric Aunt Marguerite for the summer. A former stage actress who had married a