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Title details for Darkling by R. B. Chesterton - Available

Darkling

A Novel

by R. B. Chesterton
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The "spellbinding tale" of an Alabama family and a troubled teenage orphan: "eloquent evidence that Southern storytelling is indeed a very special art form" (The New York Times Book Review).
In the 1940s, Coden, Alabama was a hideaway for movie stars—an isolated playground tucked among live oaks and placid bay waters where pleasure and vice could be indulged. By the summer of 1974 Coden's glamour has faded, but it doesn't bother Mimi Bosarge, who is just happy to have a job as a live-in tutor with the wealthiest family in town, the Hendersons. When the Hendersons generously open their arms to Annie, a troubled teenager with no recollection of her past, Mimi's greatest concern is creating a curriculum for the family's new ward.
But it soon becomes obvious that something is wrong. Annie seems suspiciously savvy for her young age, and Mimi can't quell the unnerving sense that there is something malicious about the waiflike beauty.

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  • Release date

    April 2, 2013

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    • OverDrive Read

      • ISBN: 9781453298541

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      • ISBN: 9781453298541
      • File size: 2756 KB

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Publisher's Weekly

      January 21, 2013
      Coden, Ala., once a thriving resort town, serves as the setting for this sharp and edgy gothic thriller, set in 1974, from Chesterton, a pen name of Carolyn Haines (Revenant). Coden residents look to California transplants Berta and Bob Henderson to bring prosperity back, since the couple plan to restore the shabby Paradise Inn, once a magnet for Hollywood legends. Meanwhile, canny 21-year-old Marie Bosarge, whom the Hendersons have hired to tutor their three adventurous youngsters and to be a companion to 16-year-old Annie, a foster child of uncertain origin, slowly realizes she’s dealing with malevolent forces she can’t understand. Why do unidentified claw marks appear in Belle Fleur, the family’s historic house? And who’s the sinister wraith at the edge of the woods? As Marie begins to research the past of the Paradise Inn and Belle Fleur, she comes across a tragic and horrific story that resonates into the present. Agent: Marian Young, the Young Agency.

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