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The invited: a novel

✍ Scribed by Jennifer McMahon

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Year: 2019
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 233 KB
Edition: First Edition
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0385541392

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✦ Synopsis

A chilling ghost story with a twist: the New York Timesbestselling author of The Winter Peoplereturns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house --they build one . . .
In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on forty-four acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams. When they discover that this beautiful property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the local legend of Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago. With her passion for artifacts, Helen finds special materials to incorporate into the house--a beam from an old schoolroom, bricks from a mill, a mantel from a farmhouse--objects that draw her deeper into the story of...

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