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17-year-old Sarah doesn’t believe in magic, but she thinks it’s fun to pretend to be a psychic - until her startling visions of the future turn deadly. When Sarah Zoltanne moves from sunny California to a small town in Missouri, she feels like she'll never fit in. Her mother is dating a jerk, the kids at her school despise her, and she misses her old home. So when a popular boy asks her to tell fortunes at a school fair, she jumps at the chance. But soon her crystal ball begins to swirl with strange visions and her outlandish predictions start to come true with startling accuracy. Now Sarah must confront a community that not only mistrusts her, but also fears her strange powers. Gallows Hill is a spine-chilling thriller based on the story of the Salem witch trials.

The Salem witch trials haunt a teenage psychic in this suspenseful thriller from the New York Times–bestselling author of I Know What You Did Last Summer. When Sarah Zoltanne moves from sunny California to a small town in Missouri, she feels like she’ll never fit in. Her mother is dating a jerk, the kids at her school despise her, and she misses her old home. So when a popular boy asks her to tell fortunes at a school fair, she jumps at the chance. But soon her crystal ball begins to swirl with strange visions and her outlandish predictions start to come true with startling accuracy. Now Sarah must confront a community that not only mistrusts her, but also fears her strange powers. Gallows Hill is a spine-chilling thriller based on the story of the Salem witch trials. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Lois Duncan including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s personal collection.

The crystal paperweight should have been clear, but it was not.Handsome, popular Eric Garrett decides that Sarah Zoltanne is just the right person to play a fortune-teller at the high-school fair. Sarah is surprised and pleased. After all, she and her mother have only just moved to the small town of Pine Crest. Sarah's role at the fair is all a game; the earphones hidden under her costume are the extent of her supernatural powers. But as Sarah peers into the crystal ball, disturbing images suddenly appear, revealing information she could not possibly know.When Sarah's visions start coming true, the students believe she's a witch and threaten her. Then Sarah begins to have such vivid dreams about the Salem witch trials that it seems as if she actually lived in Salem more than three hundred years ago.What is happening in Pine Crest? Sarah knows her life is in danger--can it possibly be true that those who threaten her are seeking revenge from another lifetime?Lois Duncan is in top form in this harrowing supernatural thriller as she applies her uncanny ability to make her characters--as well as her readers--understand the dark side of human nature and the consequences of vengeance.

"The crystal paperweight should have been clear, but it was not." Handsome, popular Eric Garrett decides that Sarah Zoltanne is just theright person to play a fortune-teller at the high-school fair. Sarah issurprised and pleased. After all, she and her mother have only just moved tothe small town of Pine Crest. Sarah's role at the fair is all a game; theearphones hidden under her costume are the extent of her supernatural powers.But as Sarah peers into the crystal ball, disturbing images suddenly appear, revealing information she could not possibly know.When Sarah's visions start coming true, the students believe she's a witch andthreaten her. Then Sarah begins to have such vivid dreams about the Salemwitch trials that it seems as if she actually lived in Salem more than threehundred years ago.What is happening in Pine Crest? Sarah knows her life is in danger--can itpossibly be true that those who threaten her are seeking revenge from anotherlifetime?Lois Duncan is in top form in this harrowing supernatural thriller as sheapplies her uncanny ability to make her characters--as well as herreaders--understand the dark side of human nature and the consequences ofvengeance.Reviewers praise Lois Duncan: For "Gallows Hill: " "Duncan delights in building suspense brick by brick until she has awhole creepy wall to collapse at the climax."-- "Publishers Weekly" "Entertaining and enlightening, this is a book that should have wideappeal."-- "VOYA" ."..An exciting, suspenseful tale that will certainly be welcomed byDuncan's many fans."-- "School Library Journal" For "The Twisted Window: " "Duncan is a true pro, grounding the twists of her plot lineswith suremotivation and providing the reader with several surprises along the way." "--Kirkus Reviews" For "Locked in Time: " "Duncan's new thriller is impeccably structured, convincing and harrowing...Inthe denouement, Duncan proves again her talent for outguessing even veteranmystery buffs." "--Publishers Weekly" For "Stranger With My Face: " "The best of the sinister and supernatural is Lois Duncan's "Stranger With MyFace."..Spine-chilling from top to bottom." "--The New York Times"

17-year-old Sarah doesn’t believe in magic, but she thinks it’s fun to pretend to be a psychic—until her startling visions of the future turn deadly. When Sarah Zoltanne moves from sunny California to a small town in Missouri, she feels like she'll never fit in. Her mother is dating a jerk, the kids at her school despise her, and she misses her old home. So when a popular boy asks her to tell fortunes at a school fair, she jumps at the chance. But soon her crystal ball begins to swirl with strange visions and her outlandish predictions start to come true with startling accuracy. Now Sarah must confront a community that not only mistrusts her, but also fears her strange powers. Gallows Hill is a spine-chilling thriller based on the story of the Salem witch trials.

When seventeen-year-old Sarah works in the fortune-telling booth at a school carnival, she finds that sometimes she can really see the future in the crystal ball, a talent that disturbs some of the other students and makes them suspect her of being a witch.When seventeen-year-old Sarah works in the fortune-telling booth at a school carnival, she finds that sometimes she can really see the future in the crystal ball, a talent that disturbs some of the other students and makes them suspect her of being a witch