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GOTHIC FICTION CONTEMPORARY SETTINGS
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by Barbara Bourland
After a fire rips through her loft, destroying the seven billboard-size paintings meant for her first major exhibition, a young painter is left with an impossible task: recreate the lost artworks in just three months without getting caught -- or ruin her fledgling career.
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by Eve Chase
Young Amber Alton and her family adore Black Rabbit Hall, and the joy and peace it brings to them all. That is, until a tragic accident changes everything. Three decades later, Lorna decides her wedding must be celebrated at the crumbling hall.
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by Sarah Gailey
"Come home." Vera's mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories -- she's come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there, beneath the house he'd built for his family.
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by Sulari Gentill
Sycophantic fan and aspiring writer Leo charms his way into a friendship with successful author Hannah Tigone through a series of flattering letters. In return, she shares a strange incident that happened in the Boston Public Library, an episode that begins with a scream and ends with this provocative sentence: "And so we go to the Map Room to found a friendship, and I have my first coffee with a killer."
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by Rachel Hawkins
A deliciously twisty remake of Jane Eyre, set in a gated community in Birmingham, Alabama. Jane is a broke dog walker, who steals from her well-heeled clients. She sees a Big Opportunity when she meets the recently widowed Eddie Rochester. But as she starts to fall for Eddie, she wonders if he, too, is hiding secrets.
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by Katy Hays
When Ann Stilwell arrives in New York City, she expects to spend her summer working as a curatorial associate at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Instead she finds herself assigned to The Cloisters, a gothic museum and garden renowned for its medieval art collection and its group of enigmatic researchers studying the history of divination.
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by Anne Heltzel
The last time Maeve saw her cousin was the night she escaped the cult they were raised in. For the past two decades, Maeve has worked hard to build a normal life in New York City, where she keeps everything -- and everyone -- at a safe distance. When Andrea suddenly reappears, Maeve regains the only true friend she's ever had.
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by Johanne Lykke Holm
Rafaela grew up near the sea, and she never dreamed of taking a job in the mountain town of Strega, but after her mother comes across the Olympic Hotel's want ad for "nine maids for the winter season," she applies for a position out of a sense of duty. She soon finds herself in the beautiful and desolate hotel--alone except for her fellow seasonal hires and three members of the permanent staff.
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by Gwendolyn Kiste
Bertha and Lucy, classic literature heroines (Jane Eyre, Dracula) are undead immortals residing in Haight-Ashbury in 1967, when Dracula and Mr. Rochester make a shocking return. A modern perspective in a tale of love and betrayal and coercion.
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by Jamil Jan Kochai
A dog on the loose. A boy yearning to connect to his family's roots. A country in the midst of great change. And a vibrant exploration of the power of stories -- the ones we tell each other and the ones we find ourselves in.
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by Katie Lattari
A tale of atonement that proves that in the grasp of manipulative men, women may momentarily fall. But in the hands of fierce women, men will be brought to their knees.
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by Jennifer McMahon
In 1978, Vi and Eric live with their grandmother Dr. Helen Hildreth on the grounds of the Hillside Inn, a private hospital in Vermont that specializes in "a holistic, humanistic approach" to healing the mentally ill. When Dr. Hildreth brings home a young patient named Iris, the children are both fascinated and repelled by her--especially the raised scars she hides under a hat.
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by Kit Mayquist
Trying to save her parents from bankruptcy, Leena takes a job working for an elite and bizarre family. When she learns the family is behind the ruin of her family, she vows to get revenge.
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by Helen Oyeyemi
There's something strange about the Silver family house in the closed-off town of Dover, England. Grand and cavernous with hidden passages and buried secrets, it's been home to four generations of Silver women. When Miranda brings a friend home, Dover's hostility toward outsiders physically manifests within the four walls of the Silver house, and the lives of everyone inside are irrevocably changed.
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by Jonathan Parks-Ramage
Follows an ambitious young man who is lured by an older, successful playwright into a dizzying world of wealth and an idyllic Hamptons home ... where things take a nightmarish turn.
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by Sarah Perry
Helen Franklin doesn't deserve joy, so she arranges her own "rituals of discomfort: the uncovered mattress, the unheated room, the bitter tea," the modern-day equivalents of wearing a hair shirt. When one of her few friends, the scholar Karel Praan, stops her on the street to share his discovery of a strange manuscript, Helen begins to suspect her past has caught up with her at last.
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by Nalini Singh
On the rugged West Coast of New Zealand, Golden Cove is more than just a town where people live. The adults are more than neighbors; the children, more than schoolmates. Until one fateful summer -- and several vanished bodies -- shatters the trust holding Golden Cove together. All that's left are whispers behind closed doors, broken friendships, and a silent agreement to not look back. But they can't run from the past forever.
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by Sarai Walker
Sylvia Wren is a famous (and famously reclusive) painter, the only one left of the six Chapel sisters. The sisters were raised in a palatial home, heirs to a fortune made in firearms, and all falling victim to the family curse.
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by Eleanor Wasserberg
At Foxlowe, Green runs free through the fields and among the Standing Stones. Outside, people are corrupted by money. At Foxlowe, the Family shares everything. Outside, the Bad is everywhere. At Foxlowe, everyone in the Family is safe -- as long as they follow Freya's rules and perform her rituals. But as Green's little sister, Blue, grows up, she shows more and more interest in the Outside. Before long she starts to talk about becoming a Leaver. . .
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by Phoebe Wynne
Welcome to the Chateau des Sètes, a jewel of the Cote d'Azur, where long summer days bring ease, glamour, and decadence to the holidaymakers who can afford it. Ruby Ashby adores her parents' house in France, but this August, everything feels different.
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