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    The Dismals
    The Dismals
    The Dismals
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    The Dismals

    By Cynthia Lee

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    "There is something on the third floor of The Dismals."

    The Dismals is a white-columned plantation house with a history of causing great suffering to a great number of people.

    A recent college graduate is house-sitting at The Dismals. Unaware of its history, she just wants a few weeks of quiet and solitude so she can write her first novel.

    But the Dismals is not quiet, not ever, and no one is ever really alone within its walls.   

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGondal Press
    Release dateMar 6, 2020
    ISBN9781393235996
    The Dismals
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    Cynthia Lee

    Cynthia Lee lives in Alabama with her husband, son and a very old cat.  After a lifelong love affair with books for young people (and young at heart people), she decided to write stories of her own.  Penny Dreadful is her first novel.   

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