Haunted by memories of the Great War, failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate'the Savoyard Plantation'and the horrors that occurred there. At first their new life seems to be every
Those Across the River
โ Scribed by Christopher Buehlman
- Publisher
- Ace Hardcover
- Year
- 2011;2014
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 173 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780441020676
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โฆ Synopsis
Failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife, Eudora, have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate-the Savoyard Plantation- and the horrors that occurred there. At first, the quaint, rural ways of their new neighbors seem to be everything they wanted. But there is an unspoken dread that the townsfolk have lived with for generations. A presence that demands sacrifice. It comes from the shadowy woods across the river, where the ruins of Savoyard still stand. Where a longstanding debt of blood has never been forgotten. A debt that has been waiting patiently for Frank Nichols's homecoming...
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