Kindlings

Hannah Webb has spent nineteen years at Gorse Hall, a Victorian estate on the Devon coast where forty-seven engineered young people are raised on watercolours, cello lessons, and the certainty that their organs belong to someone else. Then a dying girl grips Hannah's wrist and whispers six words that unravel everything the Sisters have taught. Truth, Hannah learns, is easy to find and almost impossible to spend. Some doors open only once, at dawn, on a gravel road.