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A town gripped by fear. A woman cast out. Can he save Pale Harbor from itself?Maine, 1846. Gideon Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt him in Massachusetts after his wife's death, so he moves to Maine, taking a position as a minister in the remote village of Pale Harbor.But not all is as it seems in the sleepy town. Strange, unsettling things have been happening, and the townspeople claim that only one person can be responsible: Sophronia Carver, a reclusive widow who lives with a spinster maid in the decaying Castle Carver. Sophronia must be a witch, and she almost certainly killed her husband.As the incidents escalate, one thing becomes clear: they are the work of a madman inspired by the wildly popular stories of Mr. Edgar Allan Poe. And Gideon must find answers, or Pale Harbor will suffer a fate worthy of Poe's darkest tales.
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Hester Fox comes to writing from a background in the museum field as a collections maintenance technician.This job has taken her from historic houses to fine art museums, where she has the privilege of cleaning and caring for collections that range from paintings by old masters, to ancient artefacts, to early American furniture.She is a keen painter and has a master's degree in historical archaeology, as well as a background in Medieval studies and art history. Hester lives in rural Virginia with her husband and son.
