Vauclain Monsters · Prequel novella
Last Frost
Return to the property through Hortense’s eyes. Read this optional prequel before or after the main series; Boundwater remains the best starting point for new readers.
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What is Last Frost about?
Return to the property through Hortense’s eyes. Read this optional prequel before or after the main series; Boundwater remains the best starting point for new readers.
People and creatures
Hortense Vauclain is the aging human covenant-holder before Della. The four beings tied to the house, tree, boundary, and channel depend on the obligation she has maintained for decades.
World and setting
The Louisiana Vauclain property in the generation before Della’s inheritance.
What’s at stake
Hortense’s body can no longer sustain the covenant’s demands. She must confront what another payment—and passing the obligation on—would cost.
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