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The Secrets of Hawthorne House - Oct - Book Tour and Giveaway

10/1/2019

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The Secrets of Hawthorne House
by Donald Firesmith
Genre: Teen Paranormal Mystery

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Matt's life changes forever when a family of druids moves into the dilapidated Victorian mansion next door. The story of an unlikely friendship, the clash of two completely different cultures, secret magic, and a search for the lost Hawthorne treasure.
Fifteen-year-old Matt Mitchell was having the worst summer imaginable. Matt’s misery started when a drunk driver killed his mother. Then his father moved him and his twin sister to the small town of Hawthorne in rural Indiana, as far as his grieving father could take from the ocean that Matt's mother had loved. At the new high school, three bullies are determined to make Matt miserable. And to top it off, Matt learns that the recluse who lives in the 'haunted house" next door is none other than Old Lady Hawthorne, the town’s infamous witch and murderer. Matt’s terrible summer is turning into an awful autumn when something quite unexpected happens. Old Lady Hawthorne’s niece and her three children arrive, and Matt meets Gerallt.


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​By the final week of October, the tall oaks lining Hawthorne Drive had reached the peak of their colors, and the first yellow leaves slowly tumbled down to lie on lawns and sidewalks. All along Hawthorne Drive, the modest one- and two-story houses had been turned into happy Halloween haunts. Throughout the neighborhood, bright orange lights framed windows and doors, and small fluttering ghosts hung from the branches of many of the smaller trees in peoples’ yards. Black plastic spiders sat on the cottony cobwebs that shrouded every bush, while jolly Jack-O-Lanterns stood silent guard at every porch. Front yards had become grave yards, and the occasional inept witch hung where she’d crashed headlong into a tree or the side of a house.
Yet the morning of Halloween had arrived with no change to Hawthorne House, making it appear decidedly underdressed with no sign of Halloween decorations.
“So Gerallt, doesn’t your family celebrate Halloween?” Matt asked as the Hawthorne children joined Tina and him at the bus stop. “You haven’t put up any decorations, and I haven’t heard you mention it all month.”
“Of course we observe Halloween, only we call it Samhain,” Gerallt said, exchanging cautious glances with his sister. Unlike Wiccans, who pronounce the holiday as Sow-in, Gerallt pronounced the Gaelic word meaning the end of summer as Sahm-wan. “It’s just that for us, the holiday doesn’t start until dusk and we always wait until then tah decorate.”
“Tonight is very special tah us,” Gwyneth added solemnly.
“It’s our new year,” Gerallt continued. “We have a feast tah welcome the spirits of those who will be born in the comin’ year and tah celebrate the lives of those who have passed in the previous year. Tonight, we’ll celebrate the life of our fathah and welcome his spirit when he visits us from the Spirit World…”
Before Matt could decide how to respond to Gerallt’s unexpected expectation that his father’s ghost was going to visit him, Gareth said, “Samhain ‘s my favorite holiday. I love trick-or-treatin’ and all the candy. Can I go with you and Gerallt tonight? Please? I promise not tah be a bothah or anything. Please, Matt?”




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A geek by day, Donald Firesmith works as a system and software engineer helping the US Government acquire large, complex software-intensive systems. In this guise, he has authored seven technical books, written numerous software- and system-related articles and papers, and spoken at more conferences than he can possibly remember. He's also proud to have been named a Distinguished Engineer by the Association of Computing Machinery, although his pride is tempered somewhat by his fear that the term "distinguished" makes him sound like a graybeard academic rather than an active engineer whose beard is still slightly more red than gray.

By night and on weekends, his alter ego writes modern paranormal fantasy, apocalyptic science fiction, action and adventure novels and relaxes by handcrafting magic wands from various magical woods and mystical gemstones. His first foray into fiction is the book Magical Wands: A Cornucopia of Wand Lore written under the pen name Wolfrick Ignatius Feuerschmied. He lives in Crafton, Pennsylvania with his wife Becky, and his son Dane, and varying numbers of dogs, cats, and birds.




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39 Comments
Pauline Milner
10/1/2019 06:52:18 am

Firesmith's writing is reminiscent of Hardy and Steinbeck. Just from the short excerpt, this author takes the reader to another place - so perfectly written as the reader can get totally lost in the book. Thank you for introducing me to this author. I look forward to reading this book!

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Janet W.
10/1/2019 10:26:30 am

Such a mysterious cover! Can't wait to read this!

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lynn clayton
10/1/2019 10:36:38 am

what a spooky haunted house vibe cover im getting

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Kelly D
10/1/2019 11:40:04 am

I like the cover. There are a lot of clues and it makes me want to know more about the story.

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Debbie P
10/1/2019 11:58:28 am

This book sounds like a great read. Awesome cover!

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Calvin
10/1/2019 12:09:13 pm

Perfect book for hallowe'en.
Awesome magician of an author.

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Rita Wray
10/1/2019 12:39:23 pm

Sounds like a good read.

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Shirley Ann Speakman
10/1/2019 01:28:58 pm

Great cover and a great book to read this time of year.

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wendy hutton
10/1/2019 02:59:38 pm

very nice cover, thanks

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SHERRY
10/1/2019 06:11:05 pm

I think the book sounds really good.

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Victoria
10/1/2019 08:58:23 pm

A good read just in time for Halloween :)

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Dale Wilken
10/1/2019 09:24:00 pm

Sounds really great.

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Stephanie
10/2/2019 04:17:54 pm

This is on my TBR.

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Bea LaRocca
10/2/2019 04:41:27 pm

Nice to see this story on tour again. I have already purchased and am looking forward to reading.

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Mary Cloud
10/3/2019 08:08:46 pm

No questions. The cover is interesting.

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Mary Cloud
10/3/2019 08:09:07 pm

No questions. The cover is nice. I like it.

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Beyond Comps
10/7/2019 10:34:20 am

Really nice cover!

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Mya Murphy
10/7/2019 11:46:20 am

The cover is absolutely amazing!!!

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Terri Quick
10/7/2019 08:52:13 pm

Cool cover

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Kelly Nicholson
10/8/2019 12:21:31 pm

What do you think of the book or the cover?

i love a good horror ,and a haunted house

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Victoria Scott
10/8/2019 02:16:00 pm

This looks like an awesome read!

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Tracie Cooper
10/9/2019 06:25:10 pm

I love the title of this book and the spooky house cover!

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LYNN CLAYTON
10/9/2019 10:00:20 pm

spooky read looks good

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heather
10/12/2019 03:14:46 pm

This so sounds like my kind of read and I love the cover too.

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Ann Fantom
10/13/2019 10:31:35 am

I like the cover. It has great graphics

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Cathy Truman
10/20/2019 08:26:55 pm

The cover looks like a great book to read looking forward to reading.

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Daniel M
10/24/2019 07:23:34 pm

like the cover

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Renee Collins
10/24/2019 09:00:04 pm

Love them first book ofmyours I read..and this sounds great roo...a good Halloween read!

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Catelyn
10/25/2019 05:21:59 am

The cover looks age-appropriate

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Jenny Ham
10/27/2019 03:39:21 am

Love the cover perfect for this time of the year.

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Wanda B
10/27/2019 12:02:09 pm

Spooky book cover! I'd love to read this book!

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Michele Soyer
10/28/2019 06:45:38 am

This looks so good.. saving it to look at more at a future date..

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bn100
10/28/2019 04:36:43 pm

spooky cover

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latisha depoortere
10/29/2019 01:05:50 pm

Love the cover thank you for sharing!

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Francine Anchondo
10/31/2019 10:03:51 am

A very intriguing cover.

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Mood Reader
10/31/2019 07:08:05 pm

Loved this one!

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Shea Balentine
10/31/2019 11:42:07 pm

love the cover.. definitely gives off that creepy vibe

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Jerry Marquardt
10/31/2019 11:52:31 pm

I would like to give thanks for all your really great writings, including The Secrets of Hawthorne House the October book, and wishing the best in keeping up the good work in the future.

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Leah Shumack
10/31/2019 11:54:30 pm

I love the cover of this book, it really draws me in to wanting to read it!

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