A stench lies on Avebury, New Hampshire. It isn’t something that one can smell, it is more of a psychic soot polluting everybody’s mood. No one recalls when it arrived, but there does seem to be a connection with the Old Mill and its mysterious new owners.
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Following the trail of the local legend, the ghost of Martha Goode, Gill Baxter is driven to discover the truth behind the events of 1821 and, hopefully, prevent another “time of dying.” That trail, though, leads directly to The Old Mill.
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The Old Mill is a ghost story of sorts set in a mill town in New Hampshire. Find out more about it with these posts:
Cover Reveal – 1/21/2021
Release Date – 1/29/2021
Kindle PreOrder – 2/2/2021
Gill Baxter – 2/3/2021
Lyndsey Wallace – 2/4/2021
Jessica Franks – 2/5/2021
Galvin – 2/11/2021
Since this has been in works for almost four years, I have done about a dozen other posts that featured The Old Mill in various stages of its development. These include:
Sample – Encounter with Martha 10/31/2019
Random That’s After Rough Draft 6/30/2017
Initial differences between blog rough draft and “formal” first draft – Editing The Old Mill – 8/23/2019
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The Old Mill is now released!
Kindle
US
UK
France
Canada
Australia
India
Paperback
If you don’t see your country’s Amazon listed, you can try a search. It might be available in other online books stores as well – search on your favorite book site.
If you pick it up, I hope you enjoy!
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A stench lies on Avebury, New Hampshire. It isn’t something that one can smell, it is more of a psychic soot polluting everybody’s mood. No one recalls when it arrived, but there does seem to be a connection with the Old Mill and its mysterious new owners.
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In his 19 years of living in Avebury, Gill Baxter has both grown into the town’s fabric and has let the fabric of the town grow into him, so much so that few remember that he isn’t one of the age-old locals. There is one thing, though, that separates him from a true local. Being from “away”, Gill missed the rite of passage that every school child has gone through, the late-night visit to the Goode Mansion to meet one of Avebury’s most celebrated citizens, the ghost of Martha Goode. At least for those who believe in such things.
To help satisfy his curiosity, Gill’s house keeper sets him up on an after-dark date to visit the Goode Mansion with her sister, and Gill’s secret crush, Lyndsey. Gill and Lyndsey’s experience confronting the ghost of Martha sets the ball rolling that might uncover Avebury’s darkest secrets.
With Avebury entering a new “time of dying”, seemingly at the hands of the long dead Thomas Goode, the man said to be responsible for the first “time of dying” in 1821, will Gill succeed and perhaps drive off the black clouds, or will the evil forces streaming out of the Goode Mill, the Old Mill, win, destroying everything, and everyone, that he holds most dear?