Yesternight (31 page)

  
“Part ghost story, part love story, part historical fiction, this tale set in a small Midwestern town during the Great War is compulsively readable, beautifully written, and populated with characters that will hover in the air around you long after you've set the book on your nightstand. I finished this story and wished very much I had written it. Bravo, Cat Winters.”

—Wendy Webb, author of
The Vanishing
and
The Tale of Halcyon Crane

  
“Evocative and lushly written,
The Uninvited
also features a twist I never saw coming.”

—April Henry,
New York Times
bestselling author

  
“Dark and romantic [ . . . ] The author effectively captures the dangers of the period, and yet Ivy finds bastions of human kindness and acceptance. Her compelling voice carries this gothic coming-of-age story, at once horrifying and tender, toward a revelatory yet hopeful conclusion.”

—
Publishers Weekly

  
“
The Uninvited
is an affecting novel, dark in fiction and in fact. Set in 1918 against the parallel epidemics of the Spanish influenza and an equally terrifying strain of ‘superpatriotism,' Cat Winters's latest offers resonant characters, a stunning twist, and an emotional, satisfying conclusion.”

—Michelle Gable, international bestselling author of
A Paris Apartment

  
“A wonderfully atmospheric and intriguing novel. Cat Winters portrays a fascinating period in American history with clever writing and a delicious plot twist. A novel that is sure to keep readers hooked to the end.”

—Hazel Gaynor,
New York Times
bestselling author

  
“A mesmerizing story of life and death in one of America's darkest periods.”

—Megan Shepherd, author of
The Madman's Daughter

  
“Winters's novel illustrates how the tenacity of the human spirit combines with the audacity born of necessity to triumph over even the most unthinkable challenges. Would that every chapter of history be presented in such captivating, lushly written prose.”

—Sophie Littlefield, bestselling author

The Uninvited

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Cover design by Laura Klynstra

Cover photographs: © Elisabeth Ansley / Trevillion Images (woman); © Judy Burns / Shutterstock (background)

Photograph on title page © Stefan Holm/Shutterstock, Inc.

This book is a work of fiction. References to real people, events, establishments, organizations, or locales are intended only to provide a sense of authenticity, and are used fictitiously. All other characters, and all incidents and dialogue, are drawn from the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real.

YESTERNIGHT
. Copyright © 2016 by Catherine Karp. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Winters, Cat, author.

Title: Yesternight / Cat Winters.

Description: First edition. | New York: William Morrow Paperbacks, 2016.

Identifiers: LCCN 2016016049 (print) | LCCN 2016022728 (ebook) | ISBN 9780062440860 (softcover) | ISBN 9780062440853 (ebook reflowable) Subjects: LCSH: Women psychologists—Fiction. | Child psychologists—Fiction. | Reincarnation–Fiction. | Paranormal fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Historical. | FICTION / Horror. | FICTION / Occult & Supernatural. | GSAFD: Mystery fiction.

Classification: LCC PS3623.I6743 Y47 20016 (print) | LCC PS3623.I6743 (ebook)| DDC 813/.6—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016016049

ISBN 978-0-06-244086-0

EPub Edition October 2016 ISBN 9780062440853

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