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Desperate Creatures
2023
First Published
4.64
Average Rating
241
Number of Pages
They say grief makes desperate creatures of us all . . .Successful, confident, young author Mara Cooke has always gone her own way, in her career, in her eccentric interests, and in her sexual appetites. But in a matter of minutes one summer evening, she suffered a devastating blow that ripped her from her life as she knew it. Years later, feeling alone and directionless, and laden with the weight of endless guilt on her shoulders, she tried to escape her pain. She fled to the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York, but the beautiful lakeside cabin isn’t as peaceful as she’d anticipated.Phantom footsteps, missing time, and the watchful gaze of unsettling paintings threaten to send her spiraling again.Despite the chills creeping down her spine, she begins to heal, and even find comfort and community again. However, Mara discovers that grief isn’t linear, and that the choices we make can change our path when we least expect it. And sometimes, we have to dig much deeper to conquer what scares us.This chilling, touching, sexy ghost story will keep yourself makes someone a villain in someone else’s eyes?. . . And is vengeance ever really worth it?
Avg Rating
4.64
Number of Ratings
14
5 STARS
71%
4 STARS
21%
3 STARS
7%
2 STARS
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Author

Mallory Cywinski
Mallory Cywinski
Author · 2 books

Mallory Cywinski is an award-winning Indie Author, Editor, Graphic Designer, eLearning Developer, and Spooky Enthusiast. She is the author of Making Friends with Ghosts and Desperate Creatures. Her writing credits also include Twelve Months of Smut, Twelve Months of Horror, Six Troubles, Seven Sins, Beasts of Grey Haven: His to Control, Thanksgiving in Grey Haven, and a story written for Assemble Media’s Film & TV Department, entitled The Couple. She has her B.S. in Human Development and Family Studies from Penn State University, and she lives with her son, daughter, and rescue dog near Philadelphia, PA. Mallory loves Fall best of all, and she’d happily go miles out of her way for a peppermint oatmilk latte, preferably from a café with claims of a haunting. Follow her adventures in writing and editing on Instagram and Facebook @author.malloryc.

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