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The Residence

By Nicola Marsh
The Residence by Nicola Marsh digital book - Fable

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When your next victim becomes the one you must keep…


For Harlan Medville, inheriting Arcania, the gothic mansion that has been in his family for centuries, is all he cares about.
He will do anything to secure his succession…including remove those who threaten it.


When his parents demand he find a suitable partner to prove his stability, he's enraged. But a chance meeting with naive runaway Cora sets him on a disastrous path there's no turning back from.


He'll stop at nothing to get what he wants.

 

(A short story prequel ending with a cliffhanger.)

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“Southern Gothic Amuse-Bouche. This is a short story (really short, with barely enough pages to qualify as a review in some sites if page count were word count in the review) that has one specific goal: To get your mind in the world of the Outer Banks Secrets and the Southern Gothic tone the series is built around. (Which is interesting indeed, given that Marsh is an Australian who I don't know has ever been to North Carolina's Outer Banks at all... but more on that momentarily.) Y'all, as someone who has *been* to the Outer Banks and has lived every day of his (non-vacationing, and even some vacationing) life no further north than 30 minutes or so below the Georgia-Tennessee State Line and has most of the last decade barely six miles off the coast not far from St Augustine... Marsh *nails* Southern Coastal life, at least the parts of it she chooses to expose and explore here, and she absolutely uses it *perfectly* in her Southern Gothic approach. Yes, this isn't *all* that the American South is, and perhaps it isn't even a great representation of all that the American South *can be*, but on the creepy/ gothic side? Marsh captured it quite well indeed, particularly if my assumption is true that she's never actually been here. Truly an excellent short story that does everything it is intended to do *and* serves as a nice lunch break read when you want something a bit creepy but don't have much time to read for whatever reason. Very much recommended.”
“"The Residence" is a short story that really shows us the dark and twisted mind of Harlan Medville, the inheritor of the gothic mansion, Arcania. Harlan's sole focus is securing his family's legacy, and he's willing to go to extreme lengths to ensure his succession. I was super excited when Nicola said she was writing a short prequel to The Retreat. I loved how we were able to enter into the mind of Harlan and how Cora and his story began.”
“"The Residence" is a short story that really shows us the dark and twisted mind of Harlan Medville, the inheritor of the gothic mansion, Arcania. Harlan's sole focus is securing his family's legacy, and he's willing to go to extreme lengths to ensure his succession. I was super excited when Nicola said she was writing a short prequel to The Retreat. I loved how we were able to enter into the mind of Harlan and how Cora and his story began.”

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