Burying Ground Point - Couverture souple

Coombe, Eleanor

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1479204188 ISBN 13 : 9781479204182

Editeur : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

Ruby and Hadria are sisters who live in Southport, a small fishing village in Tasmania. Ruby, is naïve and gentle. Hadria has flashing eyes that dance with witchery. Two young abalone divers, Bran and Drew, are in love with Hadria and she enjoys playing dangerously with their emotions.Hadria and Ruby live with their father, Beal, an alcoholic, who has never recovered from the day his wife and son drowned. His son’s body was never recovered but the superstitious people in the town decide to lay his soul to rest at Burying Ground Point, with others also lost to the sea. One day Ruby finds a red stone in under some mysterious rock circles that lie near Burying Ground Point. This red stone exerts a strange power once Ruby wears it around her neck. One night, the stone calls a dark and terrifying energy from the ocean. As the spirits of old are raised from their slumbers, ghosts emerge from Burying Ground Point. Tensions mount as the ghost sightings run concurrently with strange weather, a series of arson attacks, suicide and murder.As the ghosts haunt the village, Ruby must combat the menace with her mysterious rock.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eleanor Coombe grew up in the Tasmanian wilderness where she developed a love of the landscape, which influenced her attitude to the world around her. Her book on superstitions has sold world wide and been translated into Spanish. Eleanor has written more than forty children’s books. In 2009 first of the Faraway Fairies series was published by Lothian books and made the Australian list of Books Alive, the top 50 books you can’t put down, sponsored by the Australian Government. Her books have been translated into Portuguese, French and Turkish. Eleanor also writes under the pseudonym of Dan Jerris and has written the series Dragon Blood Pirates. This series has sold worldwide. Eleanor also lectured in communications at Canberra University and was awarded a Distinguished Alumni Award for her work as the author of many successful children’s books. She was the Tasmanian Premier's Ambassador for reading in 2015.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Date d'édition: 2012
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1479204188
• ISBN 13: 9781479204182
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 285
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg