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Good House, The

A Legacy of Voodoo and a Cursed Home Author: Tananarive Due The Good House is known to be just that: a blessed place. After all, it is the only house that survived a mudslide that leveled the entire town of Sacajawea. It is Angela’s heritage, this beautiful house in this backwards, rural little town. She loves it for the memories of her Grandma Marie, for the wildness of the landscape, for the very goodness that pervades it. It seems natural that she should return to this house to repair her marriage with Tariq. But when her young son Corey shoots himself [...]

2022-10-29T14:52:14-07:00October 29th, 2022|Tags: , , , |

My Dark Vanessa

Lolita Today Author: Kate Elizabeth Russell In light of the #MeToo movement, against the backdrop of a modern-day Lolita, Kate Elizabeth Russell unspools a dark tale of power, lust, and lies. In 2000, 15-year-old Vanessa has a crush on her high school teacher, Jacob Strane, a man who seems to genuinely care about her and compares her dark hair to falling leaves. But is Vanessa, with her bravery and love of the forbidden, getting in over her head? Is she experiencing an epic romance that will define the rest of her life, or is she being groomed as a victim, [...]

2022-10-05T10:06:32-07:00October 5th, 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |

Tender Prey

Part Horror, Part Thriller: A Mother's Dilemma Author: Julia Grice Sherry Vincent is haunted by memories of her summer as a 12-year-old: of the handsome teacher, the secret meeting with him and her friends, what he did, and what the town did afterwards. It’s something she can never escape, and now as a recently divorced single mother, raising her beautiful 12-year-old daughter Kady, all the fears are coming back. When someone begins to buzz their remote house with a snowmobile, unsolicited and decidedly adult glamour shots of her daughter appear in town, and violent pornographic tapes start to arrive in the [...]

2022-10-01T12:24:30-07:00October 1st, 2022|Tags: , , , , |
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