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The skeletons in the closet have nothing on the one in your
backyard. Freshly divorced and grieving the death of her father,
Josie Lauer has caged herself inside her home. To cope with her
losses, Josie follows a strict daily routine of work, playing with
her dog, Po, and trying to remember to eat a decent meal--and
ending each night by drinking copious amounts of vodka. In other
words, she is not coping at all. Everything changes when Josie
wakes to find a small shrub has sprouted in her otherwise dirt
backyard the morning after yet another bender. Within hours, the
vine-like plant is running amok--and it's brought company. The
appearance of the unwieldly growth has also heralded the arrival of
a busybody new neighbor who insists on thrusting herself into
Josie's life. The neighbor Josie can deal with. The talking
skeleton called Skelly that has perched itself in Josie's backyard
on a throne made of vines, however, is an entirely different
matter. As the strangely sentient plant continues to grow and twist
its tendrils inside Josie's suddenly complicated life, Josie begins
to realize her new neighbor knows a lot more about the vines and
her bizarre new visitor than she initially lets on. There's a
reason Skelly has chosen to appear in Josie's suddenly-blooming
backyard and insists on pulling her out of her carefully kept
self-isolation. All Josie has to do is figure out what that reason
is--and she has only a few days to do it, or else she might find
herself on the wrong side of catastrophe. LITTLE BIRD is a story
about found family, no matter how bizarre.
It's 2025. Sisters, Doris and Thea, exist worlds apart, despite
living within a few miles of one another. Doris with her regular
home and regular husband and regular job, and Thea slinking along
the edges of society, solitary and invisible. When a storm of
biblical proportions strikes, the wayward sisters are begrudgingly
forced together as the rain waters rise, each attempting to survive
both the flood and each other. One year later, Thea--now calling
herself Sestra--floats throughout a ravaged, flood soaked world.
Her former life drowned beneath metric tons of water, she and her
only companion, Robert, battle starvation, heatstroke, and the
monstrous creatures called Posies that appeared alongside the
flood. When they run across what they assume to be an abandoned
tugboat, their journey takes a new turn, and the truth about the
flood and the monsters seems more intricately linked to Thea's past
then she may realize.
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Dead of Winter (Paperback)
Daniel Buell, N J Ember; Edited by Lindy Ryan; Sam Hooker, Alcy Leyva, …
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R477
Discovery Miles 4 770
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Eight chilling tales to read under the Cold Moon. A tinker's son
acquires a cursed soul. A dying woman is haunted by her own
reflection. An uninvited presence haunts a Christmas seance. A
festive holiday turns macabre. Despite the twinkling lights and
steaming cocoa, the end of the year is the darkest time of the
year-a season of short days, long nights, and cold skies. In this
special anniversary anthology, the authors of Black Spot Books mix
Ye Olde Yuletide hauntings with modern-day holiday horrors to weave
a chilling new collection of dark winter tales. From frozen forests
stalked by eerie Christmas ghosts to rotting gifts of winter
malice, the spirits of Christmas come home for the holidays in the
Dead of Winter.
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