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Emmerson Ross has been a good girl all year, and Santa is sure to deliver the best gift this holiday—a promotion at her dream job. Everything is going her way until her father’s accident forces her to return home. Home is the last place she wants to be. You can’t hide from your past in a small town.

Haunted Devon – The Strange Case of the Palk Diary Past, present and future collide in this hauntology of late Victorian gothic horror. Rural Devon 1874. As the full extent of modernity imposes its dark rationality across the land, a monster is summoned from the past, deep in the heart of an ancient forest.A deity? A creature? A ghost? All and yet none of these. Yet murder, destruction and madness is called forth by an entity that haunts both physical and metaphysical space - a beast that stalks us still. Revealed in a lost diary, these strange and unnerving tales...

To trust is to risk, become vulnerable, to place the center of our universe somewhere other than ourselves. A loss of trust, particularly in public figures and institutions, is increasingly a feature of modern life. Together these essays provide deep reflections on the nature of trust in the context of public life, agreeing that it is engendered through real encounters, not in the abstract or by force. They offer guidance on how to make those encounters real, whether they be between people or between institutions and the people they serve.