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After the Great War, American heiress Ruby Vaughn made a life for herself running a rare bookstore alongside her octogenarian employer and house mate in Exeter. She's always avoided dwelling on the past, even before the war, but it always has a way of finding her. When Ruby is forced to deliver a box of books to a folk healer living deep in the Cornish countryside, she is brought back to the one place she swore she'd never return. A more sensible soul would have delivered the package and left without rehashing old wounds. But no one has ever accused Ruby of being sensible. Thus begins her visit to Penryth Hall. A foreboding fortress, Penryth Hall is home to Ruby's once dearest friend, Tamsyn, and her husband, Sir Edward Chenowyth. It's an unsettling place, and after a more unsettling evening, Ruby is eager to depart. But her plans change when Penryth's bells ring for the first time in thirty years. Edward is dead; he met a gruesome end in the orchard, and with his death brings whispers of a returned curse. It also brings Ruan Kivell, the person whose books brought her to Cornwall, the one the locals call a Pellar, the man they believe can break the curse. Ruby doesn't believe in curses?or Pellars?but this is Cornwall and to these villagers the curse is anything but lore, and they believe it will soon claim its next victim: Tamsyn. To protect her friend, Ruby must work alongside the Pellar to find out what really happened in the orchard that night.

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"Emma Love beautifully delivers the essence of this story. Love skillfully depicts the many characters by altering her accent, tone, and pacing. Masterfully, Love increases the listener's anticipation with breathless pacing.-- ""Audiofile Magazine"""

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Jess Armstrong is the author of The Curse of Penryth Hall, which won the Mystery Writers of America/Minotaur First Crime Novel Competition. She has a masters degree in American history but prefers writing about imaginary people. When she's not working on her next project, she's probably thinking about cheese, baking, or tweeting. She lives in New Orleans with her historian husband, their two sons, a yellow cat, a speckled dog, and the world's most pampered school-fair goldfish. Emma Love is a talented audiobook narrator and actor as well as an award-winning singer. A lover of books, she has also lent her talents to commercials, animated characters, and television promotions that can be heard and seen around the globe. After training in New York City, she moved to the Pacific Northwest, where she enjoys hiking on sunny days and reading romance novels on rainy days.

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