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Starling House

Alix E. Harrow

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In the unlucky town of Eden, Kentucky, Opal is a cynical young woman working odd jobs to secure a better future for her younger brother Jasper. Long fascinated by a vanished nineteenth-century author and her eerie mansion, Opal takes a chance to earn extra money inside Starling House and its reclusive heir, Arthur. As buried secrets surface and the town seems to fill with ghosts, Opal finds herself drawn into a dark mystery and a reason to stay.

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