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    The Nightingale Bones
    The Nightingale Bones
    The Nightingale Bones

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    The Nightingale Bones

    Written by Ariel Swan

    Narrated by Jennifer Pickens

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    Someone has been waiting a long time for Alice Towne to arrive in Hawthorne.

    Two hundred years, in fact.

    Trying to accept her mother's belief that the women of the Towne family are blessed, not cursed, with supernatural abilities, twenty-seven-year old Alice leaves a disapproving Boston husband to housesit for the summer in tiny Hawthorne, a historic village famous in the 1800s for its peppermint farms and the large, herbal-essence distilleries that flourished around the Massachusetts township.

    She settles into a beautiful old home with a tragic reputation. There are said to be sightings and sounds from the spirit of a young woman who hanged herself after all her children died there of illnesses in the 1900s.

    But soon, Alice experiences firsthand encounters that convince her the spirit is not who people think. The truth is shocking, steeped in the town's distillery history and its legends of a local wizard and witchcraft. As she falls in love with a local farmer whose family legacy is as tangled in the magick and the mystery as her own, Alice's fear becomes not whether the past can be resolved . . . but whether it's waiting to claim new victims.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBryant Street Publishing
    Release dateOct 8, 2024
    ISBN9781094471754
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    Ariel Swan

    Ariel Swan grew up first among ghosts in an old Victorian and then came of age on the shores of a New England lake where she continued to hear voices in the wind and trees. These gifts stayed with her as she worked through two degrees at the University of Massachusetts, dabbling in literature, sociology, creative writing, and as many playfully wicked adventures as she could conjure. When she moved to a hill town in western Massachusetts, where the earth itself seemed tinted with enchantment, the seeds of her first novel, The Nightingale Bones, took root. Ariel loves small town lore, old houses, and rural New England settings. Her writing crosses genres, mixing the mystical with the literary, centered on women’s themes, strong atmosphere and vivid characters.

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    • 4/5
      It's an interesting story. A little slow. It's a good listen.
    • 5/5

      Really good book ; he entertaining is an understatement . Was a really good mystery.
    • 3/5
      I love the premise of the book. Writing is decent. Didn't come to fruition as I'd
      wanted. There are holes in the storyline of a whining protagonist (cursed said Alice too often) named Alice (whose mother is a witch, a wiccan and names their precious magical daughter a common name), leaves a controlling husband to find another boy-man whom she has to convince she isn't petty, crazy and has clairvoyant gifts. Gosh to live happy after this. Too many daft thinking by Alice in the 2nd half to become a characteur of the storylines premise. (After dying and being revived to life Alice has the audacity of self harm to leave the hospital to find her true love. I am choking from laughter.)

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