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'This classy, atmospheric thriller is always one step ahead' Heat A
gripping psychological thriller for fans of The Couple Next Door, I
Let You In and The Girl Before There's a stranger living in Kimber
Hannon's house. He tells the police that he has every right to be
there, and he has the paperwork to prove it. But Kimber definitely
didn't invite this man to move in. He tells her that he knows
something about her, and he wants everyone else to know it too. "I
was there. I saw what you did." These words reveal a connection to
Kimber's distant past, and dark secrets she'd long ago left buried.
This trespasser isn't after anything as simple as her money or her
home. He wants to move into her carefully orchestrated life - and
destroy it. ************** Readers are LOVING The Stranger Inside
'I was captivated by it from the very first chapter' 'This is the
definition of a page turner' 'Full of secrets, lies, twists and
turns' 'Oh wow! What a rollercoaster of a book I didn't know what
to expect next!' 'Gripping thriller that I just couldn't put
down!!' 'Absolutely stunning book! One of my favourites of this
year' ************** Praise for The Stranger Inside 'Absorbing,
addictive and downright chilling' Alison Gaylin 'Suspenseful and
moving, The Stranger Inside gripped me from the first page' Meg
Gardiner '[An] elegant scary mystery, where nothing is as it seems
and one woman's truth is shattered by the hidden secrets of her
past.' J.T. Ellison, New York Times bestselling author of Lie to Me
'Compelling characters, lush settings, complex emotions-all in a
clever plot and spiced with a hint of darkness' Carolyn Haines,
bestselling author of The House of Memory
There's a stranger in your house. And he knows your biggest secret.
When Kimber Hannon returns home from a work trip, she's ready to kick back and relax on the sofa. But on reaching the front door, she is shocked to discover that her key no longer works and there's a man in the bedroom window. Kimber calls the police, but the intruder tells them he's renting the house. Her neighbour corroborates his story and it is Kimber who is forced to leave. But before she does, the stranger whispers 'I was there. I saw what you did.' These words reveal a connection to Kimber's distant past, and dark secrets she'd long ago left buried.
Her trespasser isn't after anything as simple as her money or her home. He wants to move into her carefully orchestrated life - and destroy it.
There is no bliss to be found in Bliss House. In Old Gate,
Virginia, stands a grand house built by Randolph Bliss, a charming
New York carpetbagger who, in 1878, shook off dire warnings to
build his home elsewhere. For the ground beneath Bliss House is
tainted with the kind of tragedy that curses generations, seeping
through the foundation and sowing madness in its wake. His first
and second wives, and his young Japanese mistress, Kiku, bear
witness to Randolph's growing insanity with stories of his cruel
manipulations and their desperate struggles to find happiness for
themselves and their children. Their desire to live and love and
even take revenge also fills the house, triumphing even over death.
Spanning half a century, The Abandoned Heart is the prequel to
Charlotte's Story and Bliss House, forming a trilogy of southern
Gothic novels in which one haunted house begets haunted lives that
echo over centuries. A haunting so powerful that even Bliss House's
destruction cannot kill it.
There's an unknown mountain in Appalachia called Devil's Oven, a
place where extraordinary, dark things have been happening for
centuries. Now, the mountain has given Ivy Luttrell, a lonely
seamstress, the power to fashion herself the perfect man. But
instead of bringing Ivy happiness, her creation terrorizes the
nearby town with brutal single-mindedness that even Ivy cannot
understand. The madness quickly touches Bud Tucker, the owner of
the local strip club, and his seductive wife, Lila, wrenching apart
their marriage, and putting their lives at terrible risk. The only
person who may be able to save Ivy and everyone around her is
Jolene, a young dancer whose roots and power lie deep within the
past, and the soil of Devil's Oven itself. Devil's Oven is the
third supernatural thriller from Laura Benedict, author of ISABELLA
MOON.
"Sublimity, as we choose to define it, is that quality a story
possesses when it is, in its entirety, completely unpredictable as
well as completely inevitable and authentic.... A story-a real
story, of the type that we've gathered here; not the mock-stories,
the painless, bloodless vignettes that make up so much of today's
"literary" fiction-involves apocalypse. Apocalypse means a
revelation (the literal meaning of the word apocalypse is a
"lifting of the veil"), and a very specific type of revelation: the
destruction of an old order, followed by a time of disorder and
chaos, and the replacement of the old order by a new and entirely
different order.... Sublimity and apocalypse. Anti-rationality and
surreality. The call for the literary artist is nothing less than
to reveal and remake everything; and the writers whose work you are
about to experience have boldly answered that call. We invite you
to abandon to its well-deserved fate the wreckage of the rational,
and to enjoy." - from the Introduction, by Laura & Pinckney
Benedict
Welcome to the dream world. What you are about to encounter is the
unfiltered stuff of the dream, and that is wild, terrifying,
provocative, and unsettling material. In this volume, some of the
best living Southern writers are offering up a feast of their
dreams, wonderful and awful in equal measure, for you to enjoy.
These dream stories and poems will tell you what you have always
known, but what you are too afraid to say out loud in the full
light of day: that we are a race of chimeras, beings made up of the
incompatible parts of innumerable mutually antagonistic creatures.
Our pieces do not fit together. We are, when were willing to tell
the truth about ourselves, surreal at our hearts. Welcome to the
Surreal South.
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