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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of The Invited will shock you with a simmering psychological thriller about ghostly secrets, dark choices, and the unbreakable bond between mothers and daughters. • "One of the year's most chilling novels." —The Miami Herald

West Hall, Vermont, has always been…

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1 author picked The Winter People as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I love books where the answers to a contemporary, supernatural mystery need to be unearthed from the past.

McMahon is gifted in this approach to storytelling. The Winter People is a great example. The tragedies which plagued Sara Harrison Shea were documented in her discovered 1908 diary, minus some crucial missing pages.

Despite Sara being taught by a sorceress how to raise the dead, violent death struck her own loved ones like a rabid evil curse. Today, a new family lives in the farmhouse which was once Sara’s. Now, Ruthie’s mother can’t be found. With time running out, can…

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The Victorian mansion, Evenmere, is the mechanism that runs the universe.

The lamps must be lit, or the stars die. The clocks must be wound, or Time ceases. The Balance between Order and Chaos must be preserved, or Existence crumbles.

Appointed the Steward of Evenmere, Carter Anderson must learn the…

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