SOLVED. YA Dystopian. They live in big house; protagonist girl is approached by stranger with strange eyes. [s]

[Hannah]

i read the beginning of a book but i cant remember the name if it or the author. okay so i just remember the main character is a teenage girl walking home in a future city with victorian style principles. If i remember correctly her father recently died. As she's walking home she turns a corner or something and a man dressed in a dark colour with a hood over his face aporoaches her and says he knows things about her father or knew her father and then he reveals his face and he has odd eyes; as in theyre like a really impossible colour or there aren't irises etc. then i believe her father was kinda important and they live in a big house. sorry thats all i remember :) hope someone knows it because its been driving me crazy.

[Jessica (Goldenfurpro)]

Sounds like Dearly, Departed

[Amber]

The Magicians and Mrs. Quent by Galen Beckett
"Young Ivy Lockwell, the unmarried daughter of a family stricken with poverty after her magician father went mad, travels from her home in Invarel, a mirror of Austen-era London, to become a governess at the country estate of Heathcrest, a Bronte-analogue complete with mysterious Rochester stand-in, Mr. Quent. As a woman, she is forbidden to perform magic and consoles herself with the study of magical history, discovering an ancient story still working its will on the world."

[Hannah]

its dearly departed. thanks for the help!