The Plague Stones

James Brogden

• Publisher: Titan Books
• Year: 2019
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785659966
• Print ISBN:
  9781785659959

From the critically acclaimed author of Hekla's Children comes a dark and haunting tale of dreadful wrongs and terrible vengeance. After a brutal break-in leaves her family traumatised, Trish Feenan jumps at the chance of a fresh start in a charming historic community. But in the back garden of her new cottage sits an unsettling reminder of past wrongs: a standing stone, once one of the markers that kept plague sufferers outside the village bounds, its 'powers' renewed every year in a ritual that seems to be more than just local oddity. As the Feenans settle in, they experience unexplained accidents, accompanied by sightings of a girl who vanishes into thin air. Soon, it becomes obvious that there is a reason traditions must not slip, and that all acts of betrayal, even those committed centuries ago, have consequences…

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
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• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• 1 Guardian
• 2 Green Skull
• 3 Bait Station
• 4 Welcome
• 5 Reporting In
• 6 Toby
• 7 The Dead Girl
• 8 Hester April 1349
• 9 Jobs for the Boys
• 10 Witch Marks
• 11 Goading the Ghost
• 12 The Food Bank
• 13 Tits On a Fish
• 14 Hester May 1349
• 15 History Lesson
• 16 Hester May 1349
• 17 Bread and Salt
• 18 Hester May 1349
• 19 The Fox and the Rat
• 20 Emergency
• 21 Hester Late May 1349
• 22 Revelation
• 23 Volunteer
• 24 The Beating of the Bounds
• 25 Garden Party
• 26 The Parade of the Dead
• 27 Pre-Determination
• 28 The Cleansing
• 29 The Pilgrim Badge
• 30 Catastrophic Circumstances
• 31 Remembrance
• 32 Desecration
• 33 Intrusion
• 34 The Night Before
• 35 The Morning After
• 36 Reckonings
• 37 Badass Motherfucker
• 38 What We Invite In
• 39 Safely Down
• Afterword & Acknowledgments
• About the Author
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