In the secluded town of Ivorton, nestled in misty mountains, a dark presence lurks. A botched exorcism claims the life of a young girl, but the villagers remain in denial, even as an eerie unease spreads. Whispers speak of a malevolent force unleashed by the girl's father, whose madness may have summoned something far worse.
Six misfits bribed a cousin with a case of Castle Lager and the promise of a quiet December, eager for a day of reckless adventure. By sunset, only five of them walked out. Fifteen years later, those five are still running—from the past, from the weight of that day, from the things they will never say out loud. They set their sights on the world's fourteen highest peaks, a tribute to the friend they lost. But The Second Summit—an unforgiving winter ascent of K2—will be their undoing. At the world's end, survival is raw, brutal, and never guaranteed. The cold cuts deep, but secrets cut deeper. Friendships fracture, past and present collide, deals go badly, and the mountain demands its due.
At a secluded observatory in the Midlands of KwaZulu-Natal, the death of the defiant Charlotte leaves a devastating silence. Her husband, William, grief-stricken and unraveling, becomes consumed by a refusal to believe, a denial so deep that it frays reality. Haunted by golden light in the halls, he finds traces of Charlotte in dreams, journals, and half- remembered moments. Love becomes obsession. Grief, a poltergeist. The House That Charlotte Burned is a historical gothic novel about love, madness, and how easily ones own mind can deceive.
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