Darkness, I: Book 3 of The Blood Opera Sequence

Tenebrae sum. I am the darkness. Darkness, I...

Rachaela's daughter Ruth is dead - and now she has a new child with her Scarabae lover Althene. Anna is no ordinary girl. She matures with preternatural speed and Rachaela can't dispel the feeling that her daughter is Ruth reborn. But if Ruth wasn't evil, she was certainly dangerously unstable - a threat to all. It's difficult for a mother to connect with a child she feels isn't quite what she seems - or is far worse than she seems. But perhaps...