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Cat Winter’s The Uninvited zipped by so quickly that I was in the last chapters before I quite realized how fast I was reading. The book opens with Ivy Rowan’s father and brother returning to the family farm from town, covered in blood, and rambling about the German they just killed. It’s October 1918 in Buchanan, Illinois, and anti-German sentiment is running high and the Spanish Influenza had just arrived. The news of her father and brother’s horrific crime sends Ivy fleeing from the farm even though she’s been down with influenza for a week. Ivy is a tangle of guilt and liberation when she arrives in Buchanan, determined to find her own way. For Ivy, death is just the beginning of her life...

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