The Lamplight Supper Club
When a stranger presses a brass key into Marigold Fenwick's palm and dissolves into the cobblestones of her quiet village, her unremarkable life as a baker's daughter ends forever. The key opens the door to The Lamplight Supper Club, a spectral gathering hidden between the living world and whatever waits beyond, where the recently dead are seated at a long oak table and given one final meal before they must move on. As gatekeeper for the evening, Marigold serves a procession of troubled souls: the proud and bitter Widow Gant, the apparition of her own Grandmother Fenwick who warns her of an ancient wrong, and the mysterious Felix Varne, whose unfinished business ties him to her bloodline in ways she cannot yet comprehend. Each course reveals a buried confession from someone still breathing, and with every supper the Hushkeeper , a quiet, watchful figure who enforces the club's oldest rule , grows more interested in the baker's girl who was never meant to hold the key. Joined by her steadfast friend Briar Mossgrove, the reluctant Hettie Sallow, and the enigmatic Bramwell Hop, Marigold begins to unravel a generations-old secret kept by Old Tomas himself. The final supper will demand a guest no one expected: Marigold herself. To free the dead, she must decide whether to sacrifice her family's comfortable lies , or become the next ghost haunting the Lamplight's table.