The Haunting of Velkwood

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From Bram Stoker Awardwinning author Gwendolyn Kiste comes an emotionally devastating, character driven ghost story (CrimeReads) about three childhood friends who miraculously survive the night everyone in their suburban hometown turned to ghostsperfect for fans of Yellowjackets.

The Velkwood Vicinity was the topic of occult theorists, tabloid one-hour documentaries, and even some pseudo-scientific investigations as the block of homes disappeared behind a near-impenetrable veil that only three survivors could enterand only one has in the past twenty years, until now.

Talitha Velkwood has avoided anything to do with the tragedy that took her mother and eight-year-old sister, drifting from one job to another, never settling anywhere or with anyone, feeling as trapped by her past as if she was still there in the small town she so desperately wanted to escape from. When a new researcher tracks her down and offers to pay her to come back to enter the vicinity, Talitha claims shes just doing it for the money. Of all the crackpot theories over the years, no one has discovered what happened the night Talitha, her estranged, former best friend Brett, and Grace, escaped their homes twenty years ago. Will she finally get the answers shes been looking for all these years, or is this just another dead end

Award-winning author Gwendolyn Kiste has created an eerie and evocative (Kirkus Reviews) suburban ghost story about a small town that trapped three young women who must confront the past if theyre going to have a future.

Author Bio

Gwendolyn Kiste is the three-time Bram Stoker Awardwinning author ofThe Rust Maidens,Reluctant Immortals,Boneset & Feathers,Pretty Marys All in a Row, andThe Haunting of Velkwood. Her short fiction and nonfiction have appeared in outlets includingLitHub,NightmareMagazine, Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy,Vastarien, TorsNightfire,The Lineup, andThe Dark. Shes a Lambda Literary Award winner, and her fiction has also received the This Is Horror Award for Novel of the Year as well as nominations for the Premios Kelvin, Ignotus, and Dragon Awards. Originally from Ohio, she now resides on an abandoned horse farm outside of Pittsburgh with her husband, their excitable calico cat, and not nearly enough ghosts. Find her online at GwendolynKiste.com.