When Margo is stalked by an unknown force, she fears for her life and her children. Little does she know that the search for the face in the window will lead her down a dark road that ends with a great conspiracy of the twentieth century. It begins in 1966. Margo lives a happy life as a wife and mother to four beautiful children. Before going to bed one night, Margo gets a strange feeling about one of her windows. When she pulls back the curtain, she sees a man's face leering at her. This one encounter changes Margo's life forever. She can never get the image of the face out of her head. Instead, strange incidents begin to occur in Margo's life. She realizes she's being stalked. With the authorities unwilling to do anything, Margo bears the burden herself. She never gives up fearing and wondering when the next incident will occur. In her quest for her own peace of mind, Margo discovers the connection between her mysterious stalker and one of the most tragic events of the 1960s. In solving her personal mystery, Margo will shed light on a prominent figure's untimely death.

“An irresistible tale that ventures into the ghostly realms of psychology, personality and intimacy” from the bestselling author of The Music Room (San Francisco Chronicle). When their daughter leaves for college, newly minted empty nesters Cookson and Ellen Selway decide to escape the eerie quiet of their home and take a trip to London. But not long after arriving, it becomes apparent that the Selways have traded one unsettling locale for another. Like Cookson, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, the Hotel Willerton has a disturbing past. Fifty years ago, a young girl fell to her death from one of the hotel’s windows, and her ghost is haunting Cookson, slowly drawing him back toward the darkness that once consumed him. As Cookson descends into a spiral of self-destruction, he is joined by two more apparitions, each reflecting the worst parts of himself and forcing him to confront the mistakes of his past that have tormented him for years. From the celebrated author of the Washington Post Best Book of the Year Nostalgia and the New York Times–bestselling The Music Room, this is “a gripping, stylish, consistently entertaining novel” that offers a literary spin on the traditional ghost story (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).

A blogger’s life begins to unravel after her son is kidnapped in this psychological thriller by the author of A Mother Like You. To the world, I’m @HappyWife. Online, people only see my picture-perfect home, my handsome husband, Nick, and my beautiful baby, Thomas. They don’t see the real Gemma Adams. They don’t see my past, the dark secrets I’m hiding in my marriage. They don’t see the fear I live in every single day. But I know someone is watching me. And now, they’ve taken Thomas. I just don’t know why. But I’m going to stop at nothing to get my baby back. Even if it destroys everything, I’ve got to find him . . . A perfect choice for fans of K. L. Slater and Lisa Jewell. Praise for The Face at the Window “A chilling page-turner . . . Gripping and twisty, I was hooked until the last page.” —Sophie Flynn, author of All My Lies “Tense and heartbreaking, this emotional thriller really got under my skin.” —Barbara Copperthwaite, author of The Girl in the Missing Poster “Races towards an explosive ending. A compelling and engrossing read!” —Jane Isaac, author of One Good Lie

Back in the day, Jacobia “Jake” Tiptree turned profits managing the fortunes of Manhattan’s most fortunate. Then she fled the rat race for a stately old fixer-upper in easygoing Eastport, Maine. But now a rat from an even darker corner of Jake’s past has turned up…a killer with a blueprint for demolishing her new life. As a home repair enthusiast, Jake knows that nothing lasts forever—not windows or doors, not plaster or plumbing. And not good fortune. After more than three decades eluding justice, the man who murdered her mother is finally about to stand trial—until he vanishes into thin air. Jake has a terrible foreboding of where Ozzie Campbell will turn up next. And while the local police chief is sure she’s overreacting, the truth is far worse than even Jake’s worst fears. With her normally full house empty for at least another week, Jake has been looking forward to the unaccustomed peace and quiet. Now her cozy, well-loved home feels more like a big empty death trap ready to snap shut. First a pair of out-of-towners clearly not in Eastport for vacation turn up asking questions about her. And if she has any doubt they’re connected to Campbell, those doubts are erased when he calls her with a grim warning. But exactly what Campbell wants from her isn’t clear, only that he’ll stop at nothing to hurt those closest to Jake. And his first victims are the most defenseless of all. Suddenly Jake can’t help but feel that her house—and her life—has far too many windows. And in any one of them she might see the face of her killer.

Originally pubished September 21, 1912, here is the lead novel from issue #2 of the famous Nickel Weekly, Nick Carter Stories. This ebook contains the complete Nick Carter novel THE FACE AT THE WINDOW.

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Laika began her life as a stray dog on the streets of Moscow and died in 1957 aboard the Soviet satellite Sputnik II. Initially the USSR reported that Laika, the first animal to orbit the earth, had survived in space for seven days, providing valuable data that would make future manned space flight possible. People believed that Laika died a painless death as her oxygen ran out. Only in recent decades has the real story become public: Laika died after only a few hours in orbit when her capsule overheated. Laika’s Window positions Laika as a long overdue hero for leading the way to human space exploration. Kurt Caswell examines Laika’s life and death and the speculation surrounding both. Profiling the scientists behind Sputnik II, he studies the political climate driven by the Cold War and the Space Race that expedited the satellite’s development. Through this intimate portrait of Laika, we begin to understand what the dog experienced in the days and hours before the launch, what she likely experienced during her last moments, and what her flight means to history and to humanity. While a few of the other space dog flights rival Laika’s in endurance and technological advancements, Caswell argues that Laika’s flight serves as a tipping point in space exploration “beyond which the dream of exploring nearby and distant planets opened into a kind of fever from which humanity has never recovered.” Examining the depth of human empathy—what we are willing to risk and sacrifice in the name of scientific achievement and our exploration of the cosmos, and how politics and marketing can influence it—Laika’s Windowis also about our search to overcome loneliness and the role animals play in our drive to look far beyond the earth for answers.

"Alan Brown has done an excellent job of collecting ghostlore from throughout Alabama ... his book is the most important volume published to date on alabama ghost traditions". -- W.K. McNeil The Ozark Folk Center