Night, and she still had three miles to go. The sun vanished below the horizon as the girl crested the rise of Old Barrons Road. Grab your favorite reading comforts and settle in. Deanna Raybourn, New York Times bestselling author of the Veronica Speedwell series Today, I am super-excited to share an excerpt from THE BROKEN GIRLS. “Vivid, riveting, and thoroughly unforgettable.” And why, why does the old garden plot smell so rancid? Throw in a cold murder case from 1994, a sleuthing journalist sister looking for justice, a dash of romance (but not too much), and the restoration project of that old boarding school. What if ghosts were really just manifestations of things that haunt you and not something beyond your control? THE BROKEN GIRLS touches on just that. The story is definitely eerie and unsettling, but handled in such a realistic and believable way. James resurrects the history of the land where the old boarding house sits. This one is more suspenseful, more action-driven, but the writing is just as good. If you’ve read that one, you’ll see how the style is similar, yet different. Told in alternating POVs–and time periods–(1950s and 2014), THE BROKEN GIRLS is a break-out suspense novel from the award-winning author of THE HAUNTING OF MADDY CLARE. It has all the elements I absolutely adore in a book: great, atmospheric writing, a gutsy protagonist, an old decaying building, secrets, mysteries and a ghostly haunt. A chilling and disturbing tale of secrets, friendship, justice and…a ghost at an abandoned boarding school for girls…
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