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The Haunting of Emily Stone

Robert Slocombe built his reputation on exposing a supposed haunting in the early 1990s, when a little girl named Emily Stone was photographed apparently tormented by a malevolent spirit. The case collapsed when it emerged that the whole affair had been staged, and Robert's standing collapsed with it.

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Decades later, Emily, now an adult raising a daughter of her own, gets in touch with him out of the blue and pleads for help. Her child, she insists, is being hounded by a dark presence, and some of what she once described may have been genuine. Robert wants nothing to do with her and tells her so.

Yet when a terrible event pulls him back to the place where he was once humiliated, he has to face the question he buried long ago: was the Stone haunting really a fraud, or did something real hide beneath it? This is a horror novel about two wounded people who must work together to protect a child from forces that will not stay quiet.

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