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02700aam a2200409 i 4500 001 5BD843F80CA811EDB1735DF129ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220726010056 008 220128s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 010 $a 2022003289 020 $a 1250272068 020 $a 9781250272065 040 $d TxAuBib $e rda $d SILO 100 1 $a Wynne, Phoebe, $e Author. 245 14 $a The Ruins / $c Phoebe Wynne. 250 $a First Edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b St. Martin's Press, $c 2022. 300 $a 336 pages. 520 $a Welcome to the Chateau des Sètes, a jewel of the Cote d'Azur, where long summer days bring ease, glamour, and decadence to the holidaymakers who can afford it. Ruby Ashby adores her parents' house in France, but this August, everything feels different. Unexpected guests have descended upon the chateau--friends of her parents, and their daughters-and they are keen to enjoy the hot, extravagant summer holiday to its fullest potential. Far from England, safe in their wealth and privilege, the adults revel in bad behavior without consequence, while the girls are treated as playthings or abandoned to their own devices. But despite languid days spent poolside and long nights spent drinking, a simmering tension is growing between the families, and the sanctuary that Ruby cherishes soon starts to feel like a gilded cage. Over two decades later the chateau is for sale, its days of splendor and luxury long gone, leaving behind a terrible history and an ugly legacy. A young widow has returned to France, wanting to purchase the chateau, despite her shocking memories of what transpired that fateful summer. But there is another person who is equally haunted by the chateau, and who also seeks to reclaim it. Who will set the chateau free--and who will become yet another of its victims? With riveting psychological complexity, The Ruins captures the glittering allure of the Mediterranean-and the dark shadows that wait beneath the surface. 541 $d 20220621. 650 1 $a Coming of Age $v Fiction. 650 1 $a Summer $x Fiction. 651 4 $a Mediterranean Region $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Gothic Fiction. 655 $a Thrillers (Fiction.) 655 7 $a Suspense Fiction. 941 $a 9 952 $l SZPC124 $d 20240109010533.0 952 $l YEPF572 $d 20231012025658.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010024846.0 952 $l FXPH314 $d 20230808010325.0 952 $l WKPE185 $d 20230310013805.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20221004010652.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20220802013736.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20220802010759.0 952 $l CYPF706 $d 20220802010205.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5BD843F80CA811EDB1735DF129ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search