Dolls in the Attic

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Lady Adelaide Rosemary Hawthorne has died. When her estranged children return to Hawthorne Manor to settle her estate they expect cold formality distant memories and the promise of a generous inheritance. What they don't expect is the attic-sealed away for years-filled with a collection of porcelain dolls each eerily watching their painted eyes glinting with secrets.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>It is Julia the youngest daughter who first senses something unsettling about them. There is something in the way they seem to watch something in the hush of the attic air that makes her hesitate. But sentimentality has no place in this home-the dolls are to be sold at auction a condition they must accept if they want their share of the estate.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But these dolls have stories. Tales that whisper from the past murmur through the present and linger into the unknown future. Some stories are of love and longing others of betrayal and blood. Some of them began long before the Hawthornes arrived while others are only just beginning.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>One by one the dolls leave the attic are sold at the auction and bound off to meet their new family.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Dolls in the Attic is an eerie and evocative anthology weaving together ghostly whispers dark family secrets and the chilling realization that some things-once disturbed-will never rest again.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Includes:</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>PRELUDE</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Before the Auction</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Madame by Scott Urban</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Harlen Glass's Long Confession by Jackson Robinson</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Bitter Water by R. E. Dyer</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Eye of the Beholder by AudraKate Gonzalez</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>INTERLUDE</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After the Auction</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Playthings of Dolltown by Nadine Stewart</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>3344 Degrees by Vanessa Leonardo</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>You Want to See by Jesse D. Lockhart</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Our Lady of Anguish by Aleco Julius</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The Back Patio Smokers by Adam Cagley</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Look-alike by Greta T. Bates</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>POSTLUDE</span></p>