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Mallory Pearson
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Five young women eager for success rely on the unspeakable to make their dreams come true in a chilling novel about martyrdom, ritual, and obsession by the author of We Ate the Dark.
Art student Jo Kozak and her fellow classmates and best friends, Caroline, Finch, Amrita, and Saz, are one another’s muses—so close they have their own language and so devoted to the craft that they’ll do anything to keep their inspiration alive. Even if it means naively resorting to the occult to unlock their creativity and to curse their esteemed, if notoriously creepy, professor. They soon learn the horrible price to be paid for such a transgressive ritual.
In its violent aftermath, things are changing. Jo is feeling unnervingly haunted by something inexplicable. Their paintings, once prodigious and full of life, are growing dark and unhealthy. And their journey together—as women, students, and artists—is starting to crumble.
To right the wrong they’ve done, these five desperate friends will take their obsession a step too far. When that happens, there may be no turning back.
©2025 by Mallory Pearson. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Listeners also enjoyed...
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“Kira Fixx narrates a chilling story of obsession as five young women call upon the occult and learn everything has a price.… Fixx evokes the youthful energy of the five women with a breathy eagerness. Each has a distinct voice, but they start to sound alike as they grow closer. The narration and story fuel each other as the five friends hunger for success, love, revenge, and a feeling of being alive. While the story is often lush and sentimental, the horror elements haunt the performance and creep into the listener's imagination. Fixx brings this haunting story to life.”—AudioFile Magazine
“In this lush and propulsive gothic outing, Pearson (We Ate the Dark) takes the dark academia aesthetic to art school…Vivid descriptions, believable emotional stakes, and deeply creepy horror elements keep the pages flying as Pearson probes the experience of queer womanhood and the toll of ambition. This stuns.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Pearson’s lush prose enlivens this creepy tale of friendship, art, and ambition.”—Booklist
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In the summer of 1880, the death of Beth Stanley’s husband puts her life’s work in jeopardy. The magic of Arcane Taxonomy dictates that every natural thing in the world, from weather to animals, can be labeled, and doing so grants the practitioner some of that subject’s unique power. But only men are permitted to train in this philosophy. Losing her husband means that Beth loses the name they put on her work—and any influence she might have wielded.
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engrossing
- By TxCollect on 12-21-24
By: Carrie Vaughn
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Some Other Time
- A Novel
- By: Angela Brown
- Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
- Unabridged
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The next step in Ellie Baker’s marriage: divorce. She and her husband, Jonah, are heading to Florida to break it to the family. No great drama to share. After twenty years of marriage, they’ve just fallen out of love. Simple. Not to their college-age daughter, Maggie, who is devastated. Or to Ellie’s father, Frank, who grows as cold as a retiree can get in Orlando. As for Ellie’s mother, Bunny: no, no, no. She doesn’t want to hear it. After a dreadful weekend, Ellie and Jonah return home to New Jersey with hearts and minds still set on a split.
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Almost didn’t finish
- By KW on 04-05-25
By: Angela Brown
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Oracle
- By: Thomas Olde Heuvelt
- Narrated by: Nathaniel Priestley
- Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
- Unabridged
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On a foggy winter morning, high school kids Luca and Emma discover the impossible: the wreck of an eighteenth-century ship stranded in a flower field. Emma enters the hatch on the deck and is never seen again. And she isn’t the last to disappear. . . . Soon a government agency begins to investigate, determined to uncover the ship’s secrets before a media storm erupts. They enlist Robert Grim, a retired specialist of the occult, to unravel the mystery, and he soon realizes the ship could be a harbinger of an ancient doom awakened under the sea.
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Enjoyable story with a engaging narrator
- By Kindle Customer on 05-24-24
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The Warbler
- A Novel
- By: Sarah Beth Durst
- Narrated by: Caitlin Davies, Sara Sheckells, Marni Penning
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Unabridged
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Ten months. That’s the longest Elisa has stayed anyplace, constantly propelled by her fear that if she puts down roots, a family curse will turn her into a tree. But she’s grown tired of flitting from town to town and in and out of relationships. When she discovers a small town in Massachusetts where mysterious forces make it impossible for the residents to leave, she hopes she can change her fate.
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Uniquely amazing! Must read
- By Taylor Ward on 03-27-25
By: Sarah Beth Durst
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You Shouldn't Be Here
- A Novel
- By: Lauren Thoman
- Narrated by: Christina Ho
- Length: 11 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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When sixteen-year-old Angie Stewart starts hearing a mysterious voice in her house, she’s thrilled at the possibility of a ghost. Finally, something interesting is happening in her boring hometown of East Henderson, Pennsylvania. But why is she the only one who can hear it? And what does it want from her?
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tried to edit
- By L. DeWind on 09-30-24
By: Lauren Thoman
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Skysong
- By: C.A. Wright
- Narrated by: Olivia Darnley
- Length: 12 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Oriane is the skylark, and the sun only rises if she wills it. Every morning, she transforms from woman to bird, calling the dawn with her song. Seclusion has kept her safe her whole life – but it has also left her lonely, and craving freedom. When Oriane finally succumbs to the lure of the wild unknown, she is discovered in the gardens of the royal palace, where she is taken in by the king and treated like a goddess – and a prisoner.
By: C.A. Wright
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Her Hiding Place
- By: Shannon Hollinger
- Narrated by: Kelly Burke
- Length: 9 hrs and 54 mins
- Unabridged
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“Okay sweetheart,” I whisper, giving my little girl Alice a final kiss. “Now remember, after I’ve locked the door, be quiet like a mouse. I’ll come back later, I promise.” Her little face crumples as I turn to leave and my heart breaks. But I have no choice. I have to work, and I have to keep her hidden. It’s just ten days until the new hotel opens. As I push my cleaning cart into the chandeliered honeymoon suite, I wonder how it would feel to stay here as a guest. To watch the sun rise over the ocean, to fall asleep with no fear. I’ll never know, of course.
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Captivating
- By SPBROD on 03-16-25
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The Hanging of Hettie Gale
- By: Tess Burnett
- Narrated by: Clare Corbett, Melanie Crawley
- Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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The moor is a difficult place for a young woman to grow up in the eighteenth century, and life for Hettie Gale is no different. Abused by her father and abandoned by her family, she builds a new life for herself and her young son. But when she’s assaulted by men who lie about the encounter and accuse her of a heinous crime, Hettie is sentenced to death. In the present day, Alice receives news that her cousin has gone missing from her cottage on the moor, where Alice spent many of her childhood summers. Wanting to help find Fleur, she heads to the village.
By: Tess Burnett
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Play It in Reverse
- By: Victoria Angelique
- Narrated by: Danielle Rayne
- Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
- Unabridged
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Addison is no stranger to life-and-death situations. She has seen her share of trauma as a critical care nurse, yet nothing could have prepared her for the cryptic words whispered by her John Doe patient just moments before he went into cardiac arrest. Exhausted and emotionally drained, she feels a strong pull toward his personal belongings, and with no family to claim them, she decides to take them home in search of answers.
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I was not expecting that Twist
- By Whitneysbookshelf on 04-16-25
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The Killing Plains
- By: Sherry Rankin
- Narrated by: Traci Odom
- Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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When a boy is found dead with the skin of a hare’s head in his hand, everyone knows who killed him—Willis Newland, just released from prison after serving twenty years for an identical murder. But what if everyone’s wrong? Detective Colly Newland reluctantly agrees to investigate a case that seems to involve the whole town, including her dead husband’s extended family. But the deeper she digs, the more secrets she unearths.
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Incredible debut novel!
- By AJ Holmes on 02-10-25
By: Sherry Rankin
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There's Something About Mira
- A Novel
- By: Sonali Dev
- Narrated by: Soneela Nankani
- Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Mira Salvi has the perfect life—a job she loves, a fiancé everyone adores, and the secure future she’s always imagined for herself. Really, she hasn’t a thing to complain about, not even when she has to go on her engagement trip to New York alone. While playing tourist in the city, Mira chances upon a lost ring, and her social media post to locate its owner goes viral. With everyone trying to claim the ring, only one person seems to want to find its owner as badly as Mira does: journalist Krish Hale.
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Powerful
- By HT on 02-09-25
By: Sonali Dev
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The Fire
- Fire Universe, Book 1
- By: Nicole Pyland
- Narrated by: Blair Baker
- Length: 7 hrs and 51 mins
- Unabridged
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Twenty years ago, Ripley Fox’s entire family was killed in a fire. After years in the foster care system and trying to rebuild her life, she’s once again confronted not only with the horror of what happened that night, but also with the truth about who was responsible. Kenna Crawford is the very definition of a hard-nosed reporter. She always gets her story, never takes no for an answer and never lets go once she’s got something or someone in her sights. When she comes across the story of Ripley Fox, she’s not only intrigued by it but also by Ripley herself.
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BEST LESBIAN ROMANCE
- By Lisa Del Plato on 01-13-25
By: Nicole Pyland
Overly verbose
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