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The Silent Companions
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When Elsie Bainbridge is left widowed and pregnant just weeks into her marriage, she inherits more than a crumbling country estate. The villagers despise her, the servants whisper behind her back, and in the locked rooms of the house waits something far worse.
Behind one sealed door stands a painted wooden figure—a “silent companion”—that looks disturbingly like Elsie herself. At first she dismisses it as superstition, but then the eyes seem to follow her. And she isn’t the only one who’s afraid.
As the house yields its secrets, Elsie realizes she may be trapped in a place where the past won’t stay buried and the line between the living and the dead is perilously thin.