Nightfall Gardens by Allen Houston

While she is quarantined inside the house, timid Silas is sent into the gardens as the mystical groundskeeper’s new assistant.

It’s Lily’s birthright and curse to become the new matriarch of this estate, to guard and maintain it, and to keep the darkness of the gardens contained. Lily’s dreams crumble when her uncle Jonquil, a mysterious, rough-looking man draped in a wolf fur, kidnaps her and her brother and delivers them to their family’s original home-the otherworldly Nightfall Gardens-a preternatural land where creatures of myths and fairy tales are both real and deadly. Lily Blackwood and her brother, Silas, live a transient life as actors in their family’s low-budget stage show, an awkward steppingstone that Lily believes will one day lead her to fame and the adoration of crowds. In Allen’s debut YA adventure, a brother and sister must survive the horrors of their mystical ancestral home and the haunted gardens that surround it.