But the dancing can't distract Annaleigh from what happened to her sister, and can't understand why her sisters keep going back, especially when the witness of Eulalie's death dies mysteriously. When the door is discovered, it takes the sisters to various locations where they dance at balls every night. When the sisters hear rumours of a door Pontus, god of the seas who they worship, used to visit, a door that could take them anywhere in the world, it's decided to find it to try and find suitors elsewhere, who won't have heard the rumours of their curse. Which makes it difficult for Annaleigh and her older sister Camille, who is set to inherit the estate as the eldest, to find suitors. It's difficult to move forward when the people around you won't let you, though with the first four eldest sisters dead, one after the other, the townsfolk start to question whether the family is cursed.

But the family has had enough of grieving her father's new wife is pregnant, and they want to look forward, so will hear nothing of it when Annaleigh brings her discoveries to him. She starts looking into Eulalie's life, the more certain she is that Eulalie wouldn't end her own life, and when she discovers a witness who says there was a shadowy figure on the top of the cliff when Eulalie fell, she's positive Eulalie was murdered. Her body was found at the bottom of a cliff, so everyone assumes she died by suicide, but Annaleigh is sure she wouldn't.

There has been so much sadness, but for Annaleigh, the latest death of her sister Eulalie doesn't make sense. One by one, the four eldest sisters have died. Craig, I was so excited to read it! But while I was captivated the story, and needed to know what was going on, I finished it feeling quite disappointing. I'd not read a retelling of The Twelve Dancing Princesses by the Brothers Grimm before, so when I heard about House of Salt and Sorrow by Erin A.

Salt and sorrow