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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. In the dark beneath the floorboards, something ancient is waiting to be heard.Eleanor Whitmore has spent thirty-two years living a small life-an unmarried governess in Boston, bound by duty, starved of hope. Then a letter arrives bearing a wax seal she does not recognize: a house with seven windows, one slightly ajar.She has inherited Thornwood House from a great-aunt she never knew.The estate is isolated, crumbling, and utterly silent. But not empty. On her first night, Eleanor hears footsteps beneath the floorboards. Whispers rise from the cellar in her mother's voice-her mother, who died at the bottom of a staircase, whispering words Eleanor never understood: "Don't let them take you below."She soon discovers the terrible truth. Thornwood was built upon a "thin place"-a wound in the world where an ancient, solitary consciousness presses against the veil of reality. In 1692, her ancestor Jedediah Harrow made a covenant with this entity, known only as the Tenant. In exchange for prosperity, every generation must offer a Harrow woman to descend into the darkness below. To be absorbed. To become part of the Tenant's endless, hungry solitude.Constance Harrow, Eleanor's great-aunt, fought the covenant for sixty years. She filled journals with forbidden research, carved protective symbols into the walls, and delayed the inevitable. But in the end, the Tenant took her anyway.Now Eleanor is the last of the Harrow line. The covenant demands its due.But Eleanor Whitmore is not merely a Harrow woman. She is also a Whitmore-stubborn, analytical, unwilling to surrender. She will not go gently into that dark. She will not be consumed.She will descend. She will serve. And she will renegotiate the terms.The Solitude of Ancient Things is the second book in the Thornwood Chronicles-a gothic horror novel for readers of H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, and Susanna Clarke. Atmospheric, haunting, and unexpectedly hopeful, it asks a chilling question: What does loneliness do to a being that has never known anything else? This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. When the Thin Places SpreadThe thin places are not thin because the world is weak. They are thin because connection is strong.The shadows beneath the floorboards were never the enemy. They were waiting to be heard.Eleanor Whitmore is gone. Seven years have passed since she stepped through the silver door in the cellar of Thornwood House and became something more than human. Her body was never found. Her voice still whispers in the walls. Her legacy lives on in the network of bridges-humans and ancient entities connected by love rather than sacrifice, partnership rather than consumption.For decades, the network has grown. Dozens of bridges span the globe. The entity beneath Thornwood has become a teacher, a guide, a strange and gentle grandfather to a new generation.But now something new is waking up.Pilgrims from around the world dream of a silver door with a keyhole shaped like a house. They sell their possessions, leave their homes, travel for days and weeks. They flock to Thornwood House by the hundreds, drawn by whispers they cannot explain.Among them is Sophia Okonkwo, a young woman from Lagos, Nigeria. She has spent her last money on a taxi to the edge of the valley. She walks the final four miles in the dark, guided by a warmth in her chest that she cannot name.Behind the silver door waits the Devourer.Older than the Tenant. Older than the earth. Older than hunger itself.The Devourer does not want connection. It has never learned to love because no one ever tried to teach it. For eons, it has slept beneath the world, consuming whatever wanders too close, growing larger, growing hungrier, growing more alone.Now it is awake. And it is spreading through the network like fire through dry grass-absorbing entities, destroying covenants, turning bridges into hollow shells.Mei-Lin Zhou, keeper of Thornwood House, faces an impossible choice. Train more bridges faster than ever before. Reach the sleeping entities before the Devourer does. Or watch everything Eleanor built turn to ash.But Sophia has another idea.What if you don't fight the Devourer? What if you teach it?When the Thin Places Spread is a story about family, connection, and the radical possibility that even the darkest hunger can learn to love. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The Grounding Wire: An Electrical Engineer's Guide to Parenting, Power, and Parallel Processing For those who learn that the most important connections can't be soldered.Gary Volt is a professional electrical engineer and an amateur father. He lives by spreadsheets, optimization, and the laws of physics. But when his eight-year-old daughter, Tesla, starts diagnosing ground loops in the refrigerator before breakfast-and his five-year-old son, Maxwell, collects ordinary rocks and insists they can see-Gary realizes his biggest challenge isn't grid stability. It's parenting.The Grounding Wire is a warm, witty, and unexpectedly moving novel about a family wired differently. Through science fair disasters, sibling short circuits, and birthday-party protocols, Gary learns that love doesn't follow Ohm's law. Some connections can't be calculated. And the most important circuits aren't made of copper-they're made of chaos, pancakes, and the courage to be weird together.Perfect for fans of Wonder, The Rosie Project, and anyone who has ever tried to measure the unmeasurable-this book will remind you that the best systems aren't perfect. They're just connected.Key themes: Parenting, neurodiversity, family life, love as a design parameter, and the beauty of good-enough. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Grounding Wire: Dark Current (The Electrical Engineer Series Book 4)The grid is not just vulnerable. It has become the weapon.3:14 AM. The alarm isn't coming from the power station. It's coming from Tesla Volt's bedroom.Twenty-three years after the Grid War, Gary Volt's daughter discovers a signal hiding in the static of the Eastern Interconnection. It's weak. It's repeating. And it's using the nation's power infrastructure as a massive, untraceable transmitter.The message is a countdown. Seventeen days until the entire grid shatters into millions of isolated fragments.The attacker calls himself Prometheus. His manifesto promises a 'Great Reset'-a forced collapse to save the planet. But when Gary traces the sabotage to a dead nuclear plant and a legendary engineer who refuses to die, he realizes the truth is far worse: this isn't just an attack. It's a surgical operation by someone who helped build the grid. and now knows exactly how to break it.With his daughter Tesla, his chaos-theorist housemate Dirk, and a family that refuses to quit, Gary enters a race against the ultimate countdown. But in a war where every substation is a bullet and every relay is a trigger, stopping the attack means walking into the trap.And the architect is waiting for him.For readers of The Martian and Dark Wire, The Grounding Wire is a high-voltage thriller about resilience, legacy, and the invisible miracle that keeps the lights on.