Why we’re excited
After a scandal, eighteen-year-old Maeva Whitney's family retreats to their decaying country house. The powerful Holloways next door are obsessed with an eleven-day festival honouring an old epidemic's dead, and this year marks two hundred years. Maeva suspects she is meant to be part of the celebration.
A standalone YA Gothic horror, so there is nothing to catch up on. A creepy local holiday, a crumbling manor and a secretive young man in the neighbours' house add up to classic Gothic ingredients. It suits readers who like romance in their horror and period-style society scandal.
On our most-anticipated list since 22 October 2026. See all the most anticipated books →
What to know about To Death, We Dance
We have reviewed 2 of Megan Lally’s books, with an average score of 4.0 out of 5. Our favourite to date is What We Did to Survive (4★).
Readers have saved it often enough to put it at No. 5 on our list of May 2027’s most-anticipated releases.
From the publisher
“Fast-paced, thrilling, and transportive, To Death, We Dance is an addictive blend of romance and supernatural mystery. You’ll be haunted long after the last page.” - Allison Saft, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Immortal Game
A thrillingly romantic Gothic horror about a girl who must uncover a terrifying family's scheme before she becomes their next sacrifice.
After a scandal blacklists her in society, eighteen-year-old Maeva Whitney is forced to flee with her family to their long-neglected country home to wait out the disgrace. Rockwell Manor is crumbling, drafty, and Maeva feels eyes on her wherever she goes—even when there’s no one else in the room. Worse, the Whitneys are swiftly welcomed by the Holloways, a powerful family in the looming estate across town, whose hospitality feels more like a summons.
Maeva has no desire to charm her new neighbors, especially once she learns of their bizarre fixation on The Death Days, an eleven-day celebration to honor those who died during an epidemic centuries ago. Back in the city, it’s an excuse for a new ballgown. In Hollyhurst, it’s a grand, utterly creepy holiday. And this year—the two-hundredth anniversary—the Holloways are determined to make it unforgettable.
Unsettled, Maeva begins to dig into their past, forming a reluctant partnership with the broodingly handsome Beau, a young man living under the Holloways’ roof with secrets of his own. As their stolen conversations turn into something undeniably magnetic, he folds Maeva into his investigation of the Holloways and their bloodstained history. But the closer they get to the truth, the more they realize something far more sinister is at work.
Megan Lally’s To Death, We Dance is a dark and dazzling novel about the cost of survival in a place where the dead are never truly gone.
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We haven’t read To Death, We Dance yet. When our review goes up, it will replace this page.
