Blood on Her Tongue

by Johanna van Veen · 2025

In 1887 Netherlands, twins Lucy and Sarah Van Veen are bound by love and a dark secret. When Sarah falls ill—refusing food, muttering incoherently, and obsessing over a newly unearthed centuries‑old corpse—doctors dismiss her as fever‑driven madness. Lucy, desperate to keep her sister from a grim asylum, plunges into the estate’s haunted past, uncovering a chilling legend that seems to seep into Sarah’s very blood. As Sarah’s behavior spirals from strange to violent, hunger‑driven and terrifying, Lucy discovers that something far older than any physician’s diagnosis is trying to claim her sister—and perhaps herself. With gothic dread and razor‑sharp social commentary, this tale weaves horror and family loyalty into a relentless quest for truth before the twins are consumed by the darkness that lurks beneath their lineage.