Monday’s First Sentence ~ Heartwood Box
This is where hope goes to die.
This is where hope goes to die.
This is where hope goes to die.
First Chapter First Paragraph Thursday Intros ~ Teeth in the Mist
She is a ghost ship sailing the mud of the mountain.
She is a spectre parting the shrouding mists.
She is a shadow upon a midnight river, she is the eye of the storm.
In her hand, a heavy portmanteau. She drops it every few steps to catch her breath and pull her cloak closer about her face. Even her bonnet is black. She is searching for a dwelling that she is beginning to think might not be there after all.
Review for Haverscroft
A haunted house, a small village, strange things happening, a marriage to save, you won’t be bored reading this one.
Monday’s First Sentence ~ Last Girl Lied To
When I First met you, that stupid-hot day last September when you jumped into my car and slid down in the passenger seat and told me to drive, you were bleached blond.
Cover Lover Saturday ~ The Haunted
Friday’s Page 69 ~ The Missing Season
I’m surrounded by cattails. They jog the memory of the egret, tall and reed-thin. Something not quite reight about those spindly legs, the curved beak tucked to its breast, the eyes like beads of volcanic glass.
I turn slightly, and it’s there: tall, dark egret shape, the head cocked in study of me. I jolt, flashes of thought (egret – Mumbler – run) slamming through me, but my feet are rooted, and I nearly fall.
Review for The Haunted
A girl moves to a new home… only to find out that she and her family aren’t the only ones living there.
Top 10 Books May 2019
Release Day Blitz ~ The Missing Season by Gillian French ~ Excerpt + Giveaway
Friday’s Page 69 ~ The Silent Companions
She walked to a table beside the smeared window. It was heaped with yellow-paged books. Dust obscured the titles. With the tip of one finger she prodded through the pile. A few volumes lower down the stack still had clean covers. Treatises on gardening from two centuries back. Some leather-bound pads that looked like journals. Culpeper’s Complete Herbal and a General Historie of Plantes by Gerard.