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The Christmas Guest: A Novella
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DeliciousI defy you to stop reading The Christmas Guest once you begin. New York Times Book ReviewNew York Times bestselling author Peter Swanson pens a spectacularly spinechilling novella in which an American art student in London is invited to join a classmate for the holidays at Starvewood Hall, her familys Cotswold manor house. But behind the holly and pine boughs, secrets are about to unravel, revealing this seemingly charming English villages grim history.Ashley Smith, an American art student in London for her junior year, was planning on spending Christmas alone, but a lastminute invitation from fellow student Emma Chapman brings her to Starvewood Hall, country residence of the Chapman family. The Cotswold manor house, festooned in pine boughs and crammed with guests for Christmas week, is a dream come true for Ashley. She is mesmerized by the cozy, firelit house, the large family, and the charming village of Clevemoor, but also by Adam Chapman, Emmas aloof and handsome brother.But Adam is being investigated by the local police over the recent brutal slaying of a girl from the village, and there is a mysterious stranger who haunts the woodland path between Starvewood Hall and the local pub. Ashley begins to wonder what kind of story she is actually inhabiting. Is she in a grand romance? A gothic tale? Or has she wandered into something far more sinister and terrifying than shed ever imagined?Over thirty years later the events of that horrific week are revisited, along with a diary from that time. What began in a small English village in 1989 reaches its ghostly conclusion in modernday New York, many Christmas seasons later.
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