The Night Gardener

PUBLISHER’S NOTE: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Auxier, Jonathan.
The Night Gardener / by Jonathan Auxier.
pages cm
Summary: Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
ISBN 978-1-4197-1144-2 (hardback)
[1. Ghosts—Fiction. 2. Household employees—Fiction.
3. Brothers and sisters—Fiction. 4. Orphans—Fiction.
5. Storytelling—Fiction. 6. Blessing and cursing—Fiction. 7. Dwellings—Fiction. 8. Horror stories.]. Title.
PZ7.A9314Nig 2014
[Fic]—dc23
2013047655

Text copyright copyright © 2014 Jonathan Auxier
Illustrations copyright © 2014 Patrick Arrasmith
Book design by Chad W. Beckerman

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For Mary

Halloo! my fancie, whither wilt thou go?

OF MAN’S FIRST DISOBEDIENCE, AND THE FRUIT OF THAT FORBIDDEN TREE, WHOSE MORTAL TASTE BROUGHT DEATH INTO THE WORLD, AND ALL OUR WOE.

—J
OHN
M
ILTON
,
P
ARADISE
L
OST
, B
OOK
1

WE WOULD OFTEN BE SORRY IF OUR WISHES WERE GRATIFIED.

—A
ESOP

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