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Eleanor Knox and her fellow guests thought the occult ceremony to make wishes was just a party game. They were dead wrong.
Almost seven years later, their accidental deal with the devil is coming to an end. At midnight on
Halloween their souls are forfeit, and the man who deceived and entrapped them will triumph.
Giles Wingate has wealth, influence, dangerous lackeys, and a supernatural entity of unimaginable power doing his bidding. Eleanor has a bad-tempered witch, a failed journalist, and her three fellow wishmakers, none of whom can stand the others. Wingate’s going to rip them to shreds.
Eleanor and her reluctant allies have just two months to turn their carelessly made wishes—unwanted, useless, dangerous–into weapons against Giles Wingate’s growing, terrible power.
Damned if they do. Damned if they don’t.
Almost seven years later, their accidental deal with the devil is coming to an end. At midnight on
Halloween their souls are forfeit, and the man who deceived and entrapped them will triumph.
Giles Wingate has wealth, influence, dangerous lackeys, and a supernatural entity of unimaginable power doing his bidding. Eleanor has a bad-tempered witch, a failed journalist, and her three fellow wishmakers, none of whom can stand the others. Wingate’s going to rip them to shreds.
Eleanor and her reluctant allies have just two months to turn their carelessly made wishes—unwanted, useless, dangerous–into weapons against Giles Wingate’s growing, terrible power.
Damned if they do. Damned if they don’t.
BEGINNINGS: How Pregnancy, Birth, and Motherhood Shaped Our Species by Tesla Monson, PhD
LONESOME HOLLER by Monica Brashears
Summer ’97. Deadly sins. Misguided obsessions.
When Better Tomorrow Trailer Park’s owner, Joe Candle, is found nailed to a cross in the center of the lot, the police have one question for the park’s eccentric residents: Who killed Candle?
No one is safe from suspicion. Not the pretty, calf-eyed cashier with a shadowed past, or the barber and his strange, altered demeanor, or the young son of a cop who harbors a volcanic temper.
As the investigation begins and satanic panic grips this small town in the heart of Appalachia, the low-grade paranoia spreads beyond the borders of the park. With the arrival of a lone, mysterious detective, a darker plot is soon unearthed. The questions that arise threaten the very existence of Better Tomorrow, and the community is tested to its breaking point.
Thundering towards the dreaded summer solstice, LONESOME HOLLER is a beautifully written exploration of loneliness, a blue-tuned elegy for community, and a comedic, devastating ode to the South.
When Better Tomorrow Trailer Park’s owner, Joe Candle, is found nailed to a cross in the center of the lot, the police have one question for the park’s eccentric residents: Who killed Candle?
No one is safe from suspicion. Not the pretty, calf-eyed cashier with a shadowed past, or the barber and his strange, altered demeanor, or the young son of a cop who harbors a volcanic temper.
As the investigation begins and satanic panic grips this small town in the heart of Appalachia, the low-grade paranoia spreads beyond the borders of the park. With the arrival of a lone, mysterious detective, a darker plot is soon unearthed. The questions that arise threaten the very existence of Better Tomorrow, and the community is tested to its breaking point.
Thundering towards the dreaded summer solstice, LONESOME HOLLER is a beautifully written exploration of loneliness, a blue-tuned elegy for community, and a comedic, devastating ode to the South.
COLD FRONT by Paul Doiron
When family friend Miriam Peters asks Bowditch to help find her missing husband, he expects to locate a wayward forager in the Maine woods. Instead he finds a body: Bogdan Peters, execution-style bullet through the forehead, bound to a tree deep inside Acadia National Park.
Bogdan was a gentle man by all accounts—a devoted husband, a new father, a maker of beautiful instruments. But the deeper Bowditch digs, the more he discovers a life shaped by secrets: a fractured family, a father who defected from the Soviet Union with powerful Russian enemies still hungry for revenge, and a Cold War mystery that someone has been willing to kill for.
Soon Bowditch finds himself dodging the FBI, who want him off the case, and a dangerous stranger newly arrived from overseas who is running his own investigation. When Bowditch’s wife and young son are threatened, what began as a favor for a friend becomes a race to uncover the truth before it buries him.
Bogdan was a gentle man by all accounts—a devoted husband, a new father, a maker of beautiful instruments. But the deeper Bowditch digs, the more he discovers a life shaped by secrets: a fractured family, a father who defected from the Soviet Union with powerful Russian enemies still hungry for revenge, and a Cold War mystery that someone has been willing to kill for.
Soon Bowditch finds himself dodging the FBI, who want him off the case, and a dangerous stranger newly arrived from overseas who is running his own investigation. When Bowditch’s wife and young son are threatened, what began as a favor for a friend becomes a race to uncover the truth before it buries him.
TRYHARD SEASON by Jenna Ramirez