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Old Grove Lake Trilogy Book One

By: Gianaclis Caldwell, Stuart Bache (Designed by), Kenneth Zink (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 September 2026

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292 Pages

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22.86 x 15.24 x 1.85

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Miss Marple meets The Shining in this folk-eco-horror set in the wilderness of the Oregon mountains.

All recent widow Margie Thermopolis wants to do is survive her last few years as an elder-care facility inspector then retire with her four cats, an ample stock of local IPA, and watch roller derby. She's haunted, not by the promised but yet-to-happen visit of her dead husband, but by his medical debt and her discovery of his secret bonsai tree hobby. When she's sent to inspect a boutique assisted living facility built on the razed site of Old Grove Lodge, she's forced to face long buried secrets: for Old Grove Lake is the site of the ill-fated Camp Keturah and her little brother's death fifty years earlier-for which she blames a mythical forest spirit, the tree witch.

At Old Grove, named for the cluster of centuries-old trees standing by the once pristine mountain lake, Margie must face not just her own suspect memories, but a manipulative, privileged lumber baron, Hayden Wylend, and his bizarrely ill mother, Mother Wylend-both intent on destroying the last of the old-growth trees. Trapped in the sparkling new assisted living facility by an early blizzard along with the Wylends, a flamboyant chef, a secretive caregiver, and a handful of high-paying residents, it's not just Margie's past that's coming to the surface: with assistance from a pissed-off Mother Nature, something with a far older vendetta is about to awake.

Industry Reviews

"A rare gem that balances genuine dread with real warmth and with." Evan Austin, Bookseller

"Goosebumps for grownups." Ryan B. Netgalley Review

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