In The Secrets of the Willson Family, Anna is a bright and trusting teenager who’s dropped off by her father at the country villa she inherited from her grandfather, whose death is cloaked in mystery. As she settles in at her temporary home, questions lurk in the background.
What business is her father attending to that requires him to place his daughter in the care of strangers?
What do Leo, the estate manager, and Emily the maid know that they aren’t revealing?
What is the strange affliction that affects Catherine the cook, impairing her speech?
And most of all, what is the secret that Anna’s late grandfather has concealed in books, a music box, and a bizaare fairy tale he left for her?
Author/illustrator Mill2’s colorful art has the range to portray reassuring daylight scenes that show off the beauty of the villa setting, and then segway to quiet, twilight tableaus that build to suspenseful outcomes.
