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Billie Fulford-Brown
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Simone St. James
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“Portis House emerged from the fog as we approached, showing itself slowly as a long, low shadow....”
In 1919, Kitty Weekes, pretty, resourceful, and on the run, falsifies her background to obtain a nursing position at Portis House, a remote hospital for soldiers left shell-shocked by the horrors of the Great War. Hiding the shame of their mental instability in what was once a magnificent private estate, the patients suffer from nervous attacks and tormenting dreams. But something more is going on at Portis House—its plaster is crumbling, its plumbing makes eerie noises, and strange breaths of cold waft through the empty rooms. It’s known that the former occupants left abruptly, but where did they go? And why do the patients all seem to share the same nightmare, one so horrific that they dare not speak of it?
Kitty finds a dangerous ally in Jack Yates, an inmate who may be a war hero, a madman… or maybe both. But even as Kitty and Jack create a secret, intimate alliance to uncover the truth, disturbing revelations suggest the presence of powerful spectral forces. And when a medical catastrophe leaves them even more isolated, they must battle the menace on their own, caught in the heart of a mystery that could destroy them both.
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By: Simone St. James
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Murder Road
- By: Simone St. James
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
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July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They’re looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long after the hitchhiker gets into their car, they see the blood seeping from her jacket and a truck barreling down Atticus Line after them.
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Okay, not outstanding
- By Marisa on 03-13-24
By: Simone St. James
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The Sun Down Motel
- By: Simone St. James
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley, Kirsten Potter
- Length: 11 hrs
- Unabridged
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Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isnʼt right at the motel, something haunting and scary. Upstate New York, 2017. Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv, who mysteriously disappeared from the Sun Down before she was born. She decides to move to Fell and visit the motel, where she quickly learns that nothing has changed since 1982.
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Disappointed Simone St. James fan
- By Spig on 03-04-20
By: Simone St. James
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The Broken Girls
- By: Simone St. James
- Narrated by: Rebecca Lowman
- Length: 11 hrs and 12 mins
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Vermont, 1950. There's a place for the girls whom no one wants - the troublemakers, the illegitimate, the too smart for their own good. It's called Idlewild Hall. And in the small town where it's located, there are rumors that the boarding school is haunted. Four roommates bond over their whispered fears, their budding friendship blossoming - until one of them mysteriously disappears.... Vermont, 2014. As much as she's tried, journalist Fiona Sheridan cannot stop revisiting the events surrounding her older sister's death.
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Drama, Suspense, Intrigue and a Ghost
- By Anna Landry on 04-13-18
By: Simone St. James
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The Quiet Stillness of Empty Houses
- By: L.V. Russell
- Narrated by: AJ Clarke
- Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
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Theodora Corvus can hear the whispers of her crumbling family home. She can hear the whispers of Kingsward Manor, her place of employment. She sees the watchers by the lake, black-eyed and waiting. But Broken Oak is silent. Broken Oak is empty....
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Plot Twist
- By Tabatha M on 02-11-24
By: L.V. Russell
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Voices in the Snow
- Black Winter, Book 1
- By: Darcy Coates
- Narrated by: Angela Dawe
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
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Clare remembers the cold. She remembers abandoned cars and children's toys littered across the road. She remembers dark shapes in the snow and a terror she can't explain. And then... nothing. When she wakes, aching and afraid in a stranger's gothic home, he tells her she was in an accident, a crash in the snow. He claims he saved her. Clare wants to leave, but a vicious snowstorm has blanketed the world in white, trapping them together, and there's nothing she can do but wait.
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Voices in the Snow
- By Raven Lord on 03-31-24
By: Darcy Coates
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The Death of Jane Lawrence
- A Novel
- By: Caitlin Starling
- Narrated by: Mandy Weston
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Unabridged
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Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive Doctor Augustine Lawrence, agrees to her proposal with only one condition: that she must never visit Lindridge Hall, his crumbling family manor outside of town. Yet on their wedding night, an accident strands her at his door in a pitch-black rainstorm, and she finds him changed.
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Promising but Messy
- By W.Oberlin on 02-14-22
By: Caitlin Starling
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At the Bottom of the Garden
- A Novel
- By: Camilla Bruce
- Narrated by: Suzanne Barbetta, Britanny Pressley, Cassandra Morris
- Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
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Clara Woods is a killer—and perfectly fine with it, too. So what if she takes a couple of lives to make her own a little bit better? At the bottom of her garden is a flower bed, long overgrown, where her late husband rests in peace—or so she’s always thought. Then the girls arrive. Lily and Violet are her nieces, recently orphaned after their affluent parents died on an ill-fated anniversary trip. In accordance with their parents’ will, the sisters are to go to their closest relative—who happens to be Clara.
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Great Idea; Mediocre Execution
- By The Book Grinch on 03-11-25
By: Camilla Bruce
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Nestlings
- By: Nat Cassidy
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Nat Cassidy
- Length: 13 hrs and 4 mins
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Ana and Reid needed a lucky break. The horrifically complicated birth of their first child has left Ana paralyzed, bitter, and struggling: with mobility, with her relationship with Reid, with resentment for her baby. That's about to change with the words any New Yorker would love to hear—affordable housing lottery. They've won an apartment in the Deptford, one of Manhattan's most revered buildings. Reid dismisses disturbing events and Ana’s deep unease and paranoia as the price of living in New York—people are odd—but he can't explain the needle-like bite marks on the baby.
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One of my favorite new authors
- By Jess A. on 04-01-24
By: Nat Cassidy
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Nowhere Like Home
- A Novel
- By: Sara Shepard
- Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
- Length: 11 hrs and 16 mins
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When Lenna gets a call from her old friend Rhiannon, she is startled; Rhiannon disappeared years ago without a trace. But Lenna is even more startled to learn that Rhiannon has a son and that she lives off the grid with a group of women in a community called Halcyon. Rhiannon invites Lenna, a new mother herself, to join them. Why suffer the sleepless nights by yourself? It takes a village, after all. Lenna decides to go and hopefully repair her relationship with Rhiannon, but as she drives into the desert and her cell service gets weaker, she becomes suspicious.
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The ending!
- By Kathrene L. Beasley on 03-11-25
By: Sara Shepard
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Black Sheep
- By: Rachel Harrison
- Narrated by: Jeremy Carlisle Parker
- Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins
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Nobody has a “normal” family, but Vesper Wright’s is truly...something else. Vesper left home at eighteen and never looked back—mostly because she was told that leaving the staunchly religious community she grew up in meant she couldn’t return. But then an envelope arrives on her doorstep.
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Satanism
- By Martowski on 11-05-23
By: Rachel Harrison
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The Madness
- By: Dawn Kurtagich
- Narrated by: Imogen Church
- Length: 11 hrs and 26 mins
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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, along with her routine and the calm it brings, she returns 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 patient with amnesia hundreds of miles away.
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Excellent Story
- By Heather B on 09-02-24
By: Dawn Kurtagich
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Bone White
- By: Ronald Malfi
- Narrated by: Charles Constant
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
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Paul Gallo saw the report on the news: a mass murderer leading police to his victims' graves in remote Dread's Hand, Alaska. It's not even a town; more like the bad memory of a town. The same bit of wilderness where his twin brother went missing a year ago. As the bodies are exhumed, Paul travels to Alaska to get closure and put his grief to rest. But the mystery is only beginning. What Paul finds are superstitious locals who talk of the devil stealing souls, and a line of wooden crosses to keep what's in the woods from coming out.
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Excellent! Atmospheric and creepy.
- By Bill on 08-10-17
By: Ronald Malfi
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- Rachel
- 08-18-24
Best Modern Day Gothic
SSJ writes the best Gothic style novels for today's readers. I devour her books one after another. Each character feels authentic. This story is told without gore or too much steam.. yet I find myself creeped out feeling like something may nab me up at any time.
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- 01-27-25
Stuck with it because I bought it
I was out of credits and this was on sale so I purchased it. I wouldn’t have stuck with it otherwise. The narrator’s voice is quite whiny. I had to remind myself of the timeframe this story was taking place in order to not get annoyed at how lacking in insight the main character was in terms of understanding trauma. I liked the story for the first half , then it went off the rails toward the end.
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-22-24
A Haunting Gothic Tale
Portis House has quite the history. A remote manor once occupied by a prestigious family until they mysteriously disappeared, now it's a hospital for soldiers left damaged by the war.
When Kitty enters Portis House as a nurse under false pretense, she soon realizes something isn't right there. There are noises in the night, and the patients are plagued by violent nightmares and mysterious voices. Are these the hallucinations of mad men, or is there something darker hidden within the walls of Portis House?
This is a wonderful story that has something for everyone, no matter what genre you prefer: historical fiction, gothic ghost stories, and romance. It's all there.
But, more importantly, this is a story about perseverance, lonely, and the aftereffects of severe trauma. I loved Kitty's tenacity and capacity for care regarding the patients. I loved the backstories of each of the patients. Their stories are heartbreaking and, even more heartbreaking, is their treatment due to their perceived mental weakness and trauma. It's an unfortunate true that many soldiers were, in fact, treated this way, and, unfortunately, some people still perceived mental illness in this way.
The underlying mystery was also intriguing. I couldn't put this book down until I found out exactly what was happening at Portis House. It was a nice spooky tale full of gothic atmosphere, but also one full of compassion.
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- Heather Stevens
- 11-16-24
Supernatural fun
Ghosts trouble men already troubled by the e war. It takes a con woman to set everyone free. Pretty good.
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- Brittany Richards
- 03-12-24
Good Adventure
This was not my favorite book by the author but it was entertaining for sure. Good character development of the main character to a point. Fun read to pass the time. Bit slow and cheesy at points but that's okay.
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- QueenPinky
- 09-29-23
Endearing story!
I accidentally purchased this book because I was so desperate to have a new book by the author. I didn't realize it was historical fiction...
However. The main character was absolutely amazing and made me super happy. She was so smart and determined and I was rooting for her through the whole book.
As for the mystery, it was okay. I wasn't totally shocked by what was going on but it was still enough to keep me engaged.
I thought the story was smart, not to give anything away but what the author did to isolate the main characters (which is really important in a mystery/horror) was very well done.
I also think, for someone who didn't want a historical mystery book, it was a perfect introduction to the genre. Likable characters, real stakes, vivid settings. Well done.
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- Nobody
- 11-20-24
Took to long
Too long to get to ghost portions of story. Kind of dragged through. I enjoy her other books so much more.
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- Kimmy
- 09-08-23
I typically LOVE Simone St. James' books but...
I waited so long for this book to come out and I was hoping for another Broken Girls maybe?? I am 4 hours in and this story is just stagnant at best! I have listened and listened and hoped something significant would happen and it's just not happening. There is NO "catch-you-and-grip-you-til-the-end" at ALL!!
I understand the importance of atmospheric description but it's "over the top" and so unnecessary. The description of nasty bathrooms, the nurses uniforms and the smell of vomit seem to last forever and I really still have no idea why because this book gives you nothing for the first 4 hours. I'm going to try to finish because I paid actual money for the book because I don't get my credit until the 16th and of course I couldn't wait til then. Ugh. I'm hoping something interesting and meaningful happens soon. That is all. Oh! The narrator is GREAT! I can't blame her for the content!
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