This Place is Death
A Curse Keepers Secret: Book #1
- By: Denise Grover Swank
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 1 hour 37 minutes
Description
It’s one of the most enduring mysteries in American history: What became of the English colony off the Virginian coast on Roanoke Island? Why, and how, did they vanish so completely?
No one suspected an ancient curse....
Ananias Dare and his expectant wife are among the pioneers who have come to brave an uncharted frontier. But conditions are harsh, and hostile natives have already spilled English blood. Only the peaceful Croatan Indians welcome the settlers. But when friend and guide Manteo has a haunting encounter deep in the woods, Ananias fears the colony faces a threat much darker than mortal enemies. As a brutal winter and an Indian massacre loom, Manteo and Ananias—and the dreadful secret they share—may be the settlers’ only hope of survival. But for the salvation they desperately seek, there will be hell to pay.
This Place Is Death is a short story revealing the chilling origins of New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Denise Grover Swank’s urban fantasy series, The Curse Keepers.
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A Curse Keepers Secret Series

This Place is Death
By: Denise Grover Swank
Length: 1 hour 37 minutes
Abridged: No
It’s one of the most enduring mysteries in American history: What became of the English colony off the Virginian coast on Roanoke Island? Why, and how, did they vanish so completely?
No one suspected an ancient curse....
Ananias Dare and his expectant wife are among the pioneers who have come to brave an uncharted frontier. But conditions are... Read more »
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This Changes Everything
By: Denise Grover Swank
Narrated by: Shannon McManus
Length: 1 hour 26 minutes
Abridged: No
Ellie Dare Lancaster is only eight years old, but the secret she carries stretches back four hundred years, to the doomed pioneer colony of Roanoke Island—and the dark pact made by her ancestor, Ananias Dare. Though her father has told Ellie of her heritage, and she knows she will one day become a Curse Keeper, she never dreamed how soon that... Read more »
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