UNNATURAL
Snap, goes the thread. In an instant, you’re reeling: coal rushing down the shoot, a whirligig, a spiralling sycamore seed. It was the brass fire-dog in the nursery hearth – or, what does Evanora call it? The andiron? Whatever its name it’s the thing that sees you off, ruins you with its hard finial spear.
Nursemaid Annabelle gets more than she bargained for when she's lured into an elaborate haunting hoax with her mistress' enigmatic neighbour Salome Dubois.
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THE MARSH DAUGHTER
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