Tabitha Freeman
Ophelia
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(The Golden Spindle, LLC. Nov. 8, 2017)
**From bestselling author Tabitha Freeman, comes a chilling new novella of horror.**
An unusually warm October causes natural wildfires to sweep into the small English town of Little Hilton, causing the destruction of the city’s most beloved buildings and parks. But when that fire begins to take actual lives of the town’s citizens in its wake, things start to seem suspiciously unnatural.
Ophelia Thatcher is the top of her class at the Little Hilton high school, and with her uncanny knack for science, she is the first to notice that the burning corpses don’t fit the narrative of “natural wildfire casualties”. With the help of her eccentric friend and the transfer student she harbors a secret crush for, Ophelia rushes to figure out what’s really going on before it’s too late. This plunges her into a world of unforgiving darkness she never knew existed, and if she’s not careful, Ophelia will find herself becoming just another lick in the flame.