Cami Martin is offered a dream job as a nanny to young Quentin Blanchette. Her employer owns an infamous plantation home called Verity. Verity is famous for the cruelties of its antebellum past and, some say, for the strangeness of its current inhabitants, be they alive or dead. The old antebellum house is full of secrets, some of them deadly. Still there is the promise of love at Verity, love for her pupil and a powerful attraction to Christopher Blanchette who has secrets of his own. Cami begins to suspect that someone or something in the house wants something from her, something she's not prepared to give.

Cynthia Lee lives in Alabama with her husband, son and a very old cat. After a lifelong love affair with books for young people (and young at heart people), she decided to write stories of her own. Penny Dreadful is her first novel.