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The Gathering Dark

Aravis-Brightspell

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Aravis-Brightspell

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Jessica Jennings is a paranormal writer with a strange specialty: she's an interviewer for the dead. But a typical assignment at an old mansion on Halloween turns out to be more than she can handle. Claude Elburke, a renowned pianist, is not just any other interviewee. The catch? Claude has been dead for more than a hundred years, tormented by the house's sinister spirits, and an ancient, malevolent evil.


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