Foxglove

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of gender discrimination, pregnancy termination, and sexual content.

In Foxglove, Grace builds on the world established in the trilogy’s first novel, Belladonna, and further explores the novel’s characters and themes. The Belladonna series is a trilogy of romance novels that follow Signa Farrow and her friends and family in the neighborhood of Celadon. Gothic in tone, the series considers questions of mortality, sacrifice, and destiny.

Belladonna follows Signa as she discovers her powers and becomes acquainted with Death. Like Foxglove, Belladonna revolves around a murder mystery, with Signa looking to discover who is poisoning the Hawthorne family and who killed its matriarch, Lillian. The events of Belladonna have a major impact on Foxglove, which picks up exactly where Belladonna left off. In the first novel, Signa’s connection to Blythe guides her decision to kill Percy, her cousin and Blythe’s brother, who was poisoning his family. Many of Signa’s actions in Belladonna center on Blythe’s well-being, as in Foxglove. 

However, the novels of the trilogy differ in important ways. For example, where Signa is the sole