When the Scarabae see news stories of a murderous black-haired girl, they know who's responsible. She has already learned how to kill, but not how to cover her tracks. Ruth cold-bloodedly removes them from the world. The people she seeks shelter with are often cruel or warped. Here, they lick their wounds, but bizarrely appear to be growing younger. Yet where else does she belong? The Scarabae relocate to London, and roost within a baroque old mansion. She is one of them but still can't feel that she is. Rachaela, Ruth's mother, trails listlessly with the survivors of the Scarabae. Scarabae must breed with Scarabae, but Ruth was a tragically misjudged experiment. Most are dead at the hands of Ruth, a child created through incest with the purpose of repopulating this ageing branch of the family. The Scarabae, a mysterious family, who are not entirely human, have been forced to leave the burned ruins of their reclusive home in a remote part of England.
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