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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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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,…
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