{"title":"The Blood Opera Sequence","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"personal-darkness-book-tanith-lee-9781907737862","title":"Personal Darkness","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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. Most are dead at the hands of Ruth, a child created through incest with the purpose of repopulating this ageing branch of the family. Scarabae must breed with Scarabae, but Ruth was a tragically misjudged experiment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRachaela, Ruth's mother, trails listlessly with the survivors of the Scarabae. She is one of them but still can't feel that she is. Yet where else does she belong? The Scarabae relocate to London, and roost within a baroque old mansion. Here, they lick their wounds, but bizarrely appear to be growing younger.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRuth has also come to London. 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