Peter Straub masterfully weaves horror and suspense into a love story unlike any other: the ballad of Ballard and Sandrine. Ballard and his considerably younger lover Sandrine have been brought together by a shared erotic obsession of the darkest kind. As they travel down a remote part of the A
Ballad for a Mad Girl
✍ Scribed by Vikki Wakefield
- Publisher
- The Text Publishing Company
- Year
- 2017;2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 183 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1925410323
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Everyone knows seventeen-year-old Grace Foley is a bit mad. She's a prankster and a risk-taker, and she's not afraid of anything—except losing. As part of the long-running feud between two local schools in Swanston, Grace accepts a challenge to walk the pipe. That night she experiences something she can't explain.
The funny girl isn't laughing anymore. She's haunted by voices and visions—but nobody believes a girl who cries wolf.
As she's drawn deeper into a twenty-year-old mystery surrounding missing girl Hannah Holt, the thin veil between this world and the next begins to slip. She can no longer tell what's real or imagined—all she knows is the ghosts of Swanston, including that of her own mother, are restless. It seems one of them has granted her an extraordinary gift at a terrible price.
Everything about her is changing—her body, her thoughts, even her actions seem to belong to a stranger. Grace is losing herself, and her friends don't understand. Is...
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