In Marion, where magnolia blossoms mask the scent of decay and piety is a silken glove for an iron fist, the monstrous Kenworthy Hall plantation squats under the Alabama sun, its octagonal tower like a single, unblinking eye. Inside, the rustle of Nora Kenworthy’s silk gown whispers through the halls, a mournful sigh on the humid air. She searches for William Light, a man her powerful family scrubbed from history like a bloodstain from a pine floor.
Now, Professor Annabeth Hayes, her academic career and sanity in tatters after a public breakdown, seeks refuge in the mansion's suffocating stillness. But the house offers no peace. Instead, it preys on her fractured mind, bleeding Nora's tragic memories into her own until she can no longer tell where the past ends and her paranoia begins.
The living Kenworthys, with their honeyed words and watchful eyes, know the house has its own way of silencing those who ask too many questions. Annabeth must uncover the truth of William's fate, hidden for over a century, before the mansion’s oppressive darkness consumes her and claims her as its next forgotten ghost.
Alabama Gothic: Marion is Book Two in the Alabama Gothic series by the Queen of Southern Gothic M. L. Bullock. Each book is an expansive historical fiction featuring the haunting history of the south.
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Now, Professor Annabeth Hayes, her academic career and sanity in tatters after a public breakdown, seeks refuge in the mansion's suffocating stillness. But the house offers no peace. Instead, it preys on her fractured mind, bleeding Nora's tragic memories into her own until she can no longer tell where the past ends and her paranoia begins.
The living Kenworthys, with their honeyed words and watchful eyes, know the house has its own way of silencing those who ask too many questions. Annabeth must uncover the truth of William's fate, hidden for over a century, before the mansion’s oppressive darkness consumes her and claims her as its next forgotten ghost.
Alabama Gothic: Marion is Book Two in the Alabama Gothic series by the Queen of Southern Gothic M. L. Bullock. Each book is an expansive historical fiction featuring the haunting history of the south.
Alabama Gothic: Cahwawba
Alabama Gothic: Marion
Alabama Gothic: Selma
Alabama Gothic: Mobile
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