The Ashcombe Child – Kobo eBook

A strange inheritance. Seven silent riders. And a child who has never stopped waiting.

Two shall come to the house on the hill.

Three shall sit at its table.

And only one shall leave.

Edmund Ashcombe has inherited a house he has never seen, from a grandfather he never met, on one strange condition: he must be married before he can claim it.

Edmund and his young bride, Eleanor, travel north through the rain to Ashcombe Hall. At the crossroads below the house, seven riders sit in the dark on seven black horses, silent and still, as though they have been waiting there a very long time. One of them speaks to Edmund. Only a few words. A riddle.

In the village, no one will say who the riders are, or how long they have been there.

Inside the white house on the hill, fires light themselves. A cradle rocks in an empty room. A table is laid for three. And beneath the house, at the bottom of a staircase of worn black stone, something small has been waiting since the summer of 1777.

Moving between a terrible crime and its long-awaited reckoning, The Ashcombe Child is a haunting gothic tale of a cursed house, a buried sin, and a child who should never have been born.

For readers of The Woman in Black, Rebecca and Mexican Gothic.

Scroll up and start reading tonight and mind the stairs.