JENNET by Karen Perkins

JENNET by Karen Perkins

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1936 - Ma Ramsgill is happy. After the losses of the Great War and its aftermath, she has a family again. Her son, John, is healthy and the image of his father, Jack; Maggie is asleep in her pram; and she's sure a third will soon join her brood. Then her idyll is shattered by a ferocious animal attack, and she realises that the old tales hold a devastating truth.

Something - someone - stalks these moors; someone long dead, someone with a grudge against her family. Jennet. Ma will not let her take any more Ramsgills.

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Present Day - Yorkshire is in the grip of a heatwave, and Thruscross Reservoir has dried up to reveal the remains of the drowned village of Thores-Cross beneath.

Playing in the mud which coats the valley floor, four-year-old Clare Wainwright finds an old inkpot, and can't wait to show it to her best friend, Louise. But when Louise's mother, Emma, sees it, her reaction is shocking, and both families are plunged into their worst nightmares.

Emma knows what the inkpot portends:

Jennet has woken.

Now she wants the children.

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A dual-timeline historical novel, Jennet moves between 1930s Yorkshire and the present day, following the residents of Thores-Cross, a remote moorland village, in their fight for survival against a vengeful spirit. Jennet will not stop until she has what she wants - life for her children. Jennet is perfect for fans of Nicola Cornick, Barbara Erskine, Susanna Kearsley and Pamela Hartshorne.

Karen Perkins is the owner of LionheART Publishing House in Yorkshire, where she spends her time writing, editing, and formatting. She's been a competitive sailor since she was a child, competing both nationally and internationally until the day she had both the National and European Ladies Championship crowns - and a terminally ill back. In the Valkyrie Series, she has written one novella (Ill Wind) and one full-length novel (Dead Reckoning - long-listed in the Mslexia Novel Competition 2011), both of which are number one bestsellers on Amazon.co.uk in the Sea Adventures category. Look Sharpe! is a new Valkyrie novel. Secrets are revealed and relationships are turned upside down.

Thores-Cross is a novel written by Karen Perkins. Thores-Cross is a dark, disturbing story about isolation, superstition, and persecution set in the North Yorkshire Moors. It recounts the experiences of Emma, a modern writer, and Jennet, an eighteenth-century witch. On Amazon.com, Thores-Cross is the number one bestseller in British Horror. The LionheART Guide to Formatting is now available in the LionheART series of publishing guides, and the UK and US editions of The LionheART Guide to Editing Fiction will be available soon.