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perfect for collectors and book-lovers! Award-winning author Dawn Kurtagich masterfully
weaves a captivating tale of suspense and horror in which Dr. Mina Murray returns to the
windswept shores of Wales to help her childhood friend fight the mysterious illness that
plagues her. When the lines between reality and delusion begin to blur Mina must face off
against a monstrous legacy—or be consumed herself. Beware what waits in the shadows… With
one unexpected email from her estranged best friend Lucy Mina Murray’s carefully curated life
is turned upside down. Leaving behind her psychiatric practice in London she returns home to
the windswept shores of Wales. Faced with everything she’s left behind she soon discovers that
Lucy’s symptoms mirror those of her mysterious amnesiac patient hundreds of miles away. With
nothing but an untreatable sickness connecting the two women and with Lucy’s life on the line
Mina finds herself asking questions and being drawn ever-deeper into a web of secrets missing
girls and the powerful nameless force at its center—one that has been haunting her for years.
As terrible ancient truths begin to reveal themselves Mina prepares to confront her own
darkest secrets and with them an evil beyond comprehension. Together with a group of smart
savvy women Mina seizes one last desperate chance to stop the cycle that began so long ago.
But there are dangers to inviting the attentions of what might not be a man but a monster…