On a lonely country road, aspiring newspaper columnist Rachel Jeffries is saved from certain death by self-taught folk healer True Gannett. Skeptical of magic and the supernatural, she learns to trust True’s experience and intentions while finding the strength to break free from her abusive marriage. When alarming events threaten True’s small community, the pair must battle a powerful magician and stop his deadly path of destruction.
An arm detached itself from the mass, a hand reached out to her. Fingers scrabbled at her feet. Horrified, she shrank back. The man’s head turned, the blistered lips writhed.
“Stephanie…help me.”
Stephanie Cook’s world has turned upside down. Fired from her job, her relationship with the man she loves in ruins, she makes a complete break from her old life. Believing she would find peace and healing for her anguished heart, she moves to an isolated house in the country, but fate had other plans. One night during a thunderstorm an injured stranger collapses on her doorstep, plunging her and her ex-fiance into the pursuit of a supernatural nightmare.
Muriel Shepherd arrives in Granite River to settle her late aunt Blaise’s estate and discovers the true cause of her aunt’s untimely death. When ghostly events in her late aunt’s house start to threaten her sanity Muriel turns for help to Avery Woodruff, bookseller and psychic, who is burdened with a guilty secret of his own. The answers only raise more questions, and they are plunged into a tangled web of murder and supernatural revenge from beyond the grave.
An unusual and deadly manifestation of fairies, a young man from America who is sacrificed to an ancient English ritual, a woman who ignores the local legend to feed her starving children, and a fisherman who envies his rival and yearns to discover the secret of his success are gathered in this collection of eleven weird supernatural tales by Julia French.
Julia French has followed a low carb lifestyle for over ten years. In Perfect Pizza she shares some of her best low carb recipes including Perfect Pizza and Basic Biscuit dough, which reproduce not only the flavor but the texture of regular baked goods. Other tempting low carb recipes include Chocolate Pudding, Blueberry Muffins, and Spaghetti Squash Dinner.
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