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Guillotine

by Delilah S. Dawson

Luxury, power, and revolt on a secluded island

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    By a New York Times bestselling author

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Luxury, power, and revolt on a secluded island

Dez Lane arrives at the Ruskin family’s island estate with a practical ambition: meet the editor of Nouveau and seek an internship. The Easter reunion offers a glimpse of a world of extreme privilege, but the household’s hierarchy has a darker foundation. The servants’ contracts bind them to the family, and once the ferry has left, their pursuit of freedom turns the gathering into a confrontation between those who hold power and those forced to serve them. The horror premise brings class inequality and coercion into the setting of an extravagant family retreat, with Dez’s career goal placing her inside the Ruskins’ closed world as events escalate.

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  • Readers interested in horror set among the ultra-wealthy and their household staff.
  • Readers who enjoy stories involving class conflict, coercive labor, and family gatherings that turn dangerous.

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Class inequalityCoercive laborPrivilege and powerRebellion

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Book overview

The Menu meets Ready or Not in this dark tale of opulent luxury and shocking violence from the New York Times bestselling author of Bloom.

Thrift fashionista Dez Lane doesn't want to date Patrick Ruskin; she just wants to meet his mother, the editor-in-chief of Nouveau magazine. When he invites her to his family's big Easter reunion at their ancestral home, she's certain she can put up with his arrogance and fend off his advances long enough to ask Marie Caulfield-Ruskin for an internship someone with her pedigree could never nab through the regular submission route.

When they arrive at the enormous island mansion, Dez is floored--she's never witnessed how the 1% lives before in all their ridiculous, unnecessary luxury. But once all the family members are on the island and the ferry has departed, things take a dark turn. For decades, the Ruskins have made their servants sign contracts that are basically indentured servitude, and with nothing to lose, the servants have decided their only route to freedom is to get rid of the Ruskins for good...
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