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Gallows' Orchard
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerHistorical Fiction
ISBN13: 9781434417794
Publisher: Wildside Press
Published: Jun 25 2026
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
In a Scottish village ruled by custom, suspicion, and hard moral judgment, one fearless young woman becomes a force the community cannot absorb. Orphaned and unguarded, she moves through a world of watchful neighbors, private resentments, and dangerous expectations, where independence can be read as defiance and desire can carry a fatal cost.
First published in 1930, Gallows' Orchard is a dark literary tragedy with the pressure of a mystery and the atmosphere of rural gothic fiction. Marriage, childbirth, murder, and death gather around a life shaped by beauty, passion, and isolation, turning village life into a landscape of dread. Stark, haunting, and emotionally severe, this debut novel offers a portrait of a woman caught between her own will and the unforgiving world that names her fate.
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