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Highly acclaimed at its publication in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a cutting commentary on America's nouveaux riches, their upward-yearning aspirations and their eventual downfalls. Through her heroine, the beautiful and ruthless Undine Spragg, a spoiled heiress who looks to her next materialistic triumph as her latest conquest throws himself at her feet, Edith Wharton presents a startling, satiric vision of social behavior in all its greedy glory. As Undine moves from America's heartland to Manhattan, and then to Paris, Wharton's critical eye leaves no social class unscathed.

A small town in Georgia holds the secrets to a girl's nightmare. Journey Navers, abused by parents who should have protected her, learned the chilling secrets, releasing a young spirit that haunted her waking days. For her, the gruesome nightmares came nightly. Determined to move forward in life and overcome the abuse, she runs away, all the while missing her brother, presumed dead. When she returns to her hometown years later, she discovers a body hidden within the wall of the house she grew up in, and the return of her lost brother. When a therapist ask her if her nightmare is a memory,...