Iris Chapel and her five sisters, heiresses to a firearms fortune, grow up cloistered yet neglected in a mansion their mother believes is haunted. They long to escape into the modern world. For young women in 1950s Connecticut, the only way out is marriage. But not long after the first Chapel sister walks down the aisle, she dies of mysterious causes, a tragedy that repeats with the second sister.
Can it possibly be that for them, marriage and sex are dangerous ? And if Iris escapes, can she outrun the family curse forever ?
Iris Chapel and her five sisters, heiresses to a firearms fortune, grow up cloistered yet neglected in a mansion their mother believes is haunted. They long to escape into the modern world. For young women in 1950s Connecticut, the only way out is marriage. But not long after the first Chapel sister walks down the aisle, she dies of mysterious causes, a tragedy that repeats with the second sister.
Can it possibly be that for them, marriage and sex are dangerous ? And if Iris escapes, can she outrun the family curse forever ?