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H. F. Askwith

H. F. Askwith

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H.F. Askwith is the author of three YA gothic fantasy thrillers – A Dark Inheritance, A Cruel Twist of Fate and Half A Dark Heart. She is a Northern Writers' Award winner and has an MA in Creative Writing. When she's not writing, she loves solving puzzles, playing board games with her family and running.

Books by H. F. Askwith

Half a Dark Heart

A gloriously gothic Victorian YA horror-romantasy about first love, sisters, and how far we will go to protect the ones we love

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A Cruel Twist of Fate

And Then There Were None meets The Inheritance Games, with a heavy dash of The Woman in Black, in this gloriously gothic YA mystery-thriller

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A Dark Inheritance

The Great Gatsby meets The Inheritance Games in this #DarkAcademia thriller, perfect for fans of Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House

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