House of Roots and Ruin
core novel 2025 Sisters of the Salt
Record
| First published | 2025 |
|---|---|
| Original language |  EN |
| Work type | novel |
| Canon status | core |
| Reader rating | 4.09 (17,240 ratings, collected 2026-08-24) |
| Page count | 544 |
| First-edition ISBN | 9780593482544 |
Synopsis
House of Roots and Ruin, the second book in Erin A. Craig's Sisters of the Salt series, follows seventeen-year-old Verity Thaumas, who has quietly seen ghosts for most of her life without fully understanding her own gift, as she flees her family's grief-marked estate to take on a commission painting a portrait for a duchess in the lush, fertile region of Bloem. There she finds herself drawn to the duchess's charming son even as she settles into the unfamiliar comforts of Bloem's court, but her new life is unsettled by disturbing nightmares that grow harder to ignore, hinting at secrets buried beneath the region's beauty and prosperity. Verity must decide how far to trust her hosts as the boundary between her visions and reality begins to blur.
Where it sits
- Universe: Sisters of the Salt
- Series: Sisters of the Salt core; position 2 of 2 in the series' recorded order
- Author: Erin A. Craig
Notes
- From the series record (Sisters of the Salt): A gothic-horror-tinged fantasy series loosely inspired by 'The Twelve Dancing Princesses', following the twelve Thaumas sisters.
Neighbouring works
Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.
- Publication order, within the series Sisters of the Salt: position 2 of 2: previous House of Salt and Sorrows (2019)
Sources
- Penguin Random House product page: House of Salt and Sorrows
- Series bibliography listing: Sisters of the Salt
- https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/696137/house-of-roots-and-ruin-by-erin-a-craig/
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