The Luck of the Vails: A Novel

Set around a grand Wiltshire household, the narrative traces a family's unease after an ancestral heirloom is reputed to carry a malignant luck. Episodes alternate between intimate domestic scenes and London encounters as characters wrestle with superstition, inherited obligation, and personal desire. Tension grows through mysterious incidents, shifting points of view, and a suggestive gothic atmosphere that blends irony with genuine unease. Medical and social interventions complicate relationships, and the two-part structure drives toward a resolution and epilogue that reckon with fate, responsibility, and the limits of rational explanation.