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Heroes Are My Weakness: A Novel

by Susan Elizabeth Phillips

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New York Times bestselling author Susan Elizabeth Phillips is back with a delightful novel filled with her sassy wit and dazzling charm Deepest winter. An isolated island off the coast of Maine. A man. A woman. Puppets. (Yes, puppets . . .) And . . . A mysterious house looming over the sea . . . He's a reclusive writer whose imagination creates chilling horror novels. She's a down-on-her-luck actress reduced to staging kids' puppet shows. He knows a dozen ways to kill his characters with his bare hands. She knows a dozen ways to kill an audience with laughs. But she's not laughing now. Annie Hewitt has arrived on Peregrine Island in the middle of a snowstorm and at the end of her resources. She's broke, dispirited, but not quite ready to give up.…

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"Broke and desperate, ventriloquist puppeteer Annie Hewitt takes sanctuary on a remote Maine island. Though determined to ignore her rich neighbor (Theo Harp, a former teen crush with a dark past, now a successful, reclusive horror writer) she finds herself drawn into the lives around her, including a wounded child who responds to Annie’s friendly puppets. Secrets abound on the island, and as Annie digs through decades of hidden truths, she may release Theo from a life of undeserved guilt and convince him he’s a worthy hero, especially for her. An intriguingly gothic direction for Susan Elizabeth Phillips."
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