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Hester Fox is a full-time writer and mother, with a background in museum work and historical archaeology. She is the author of such novels as The Witch of Willow Hall, A Lullaby for Witches, and The Last Heir to Blackwood Library. She lives in a small mill town in Massachusetts.

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	The Last Heir to Blackwood Library 3.37 avg rating — 17,974 ratings — published 2023 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Witch of Willow Hall 3.72 avg rating — 11,769 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Lullaby for Witches 3.60 avg rating — 8,485 ratings — published 2022 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Widow Of Pale Harbor 3.48 avg rating — 4,011 ratings — published 2019 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Orphan of Cemetery Hill 3.64 avg rating — 2,556 ratings — published 2020 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book of Thorns 3.59 avg rating — 1,587 ratings — published 2024 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Magic Deep and Drowning 3.41 avg rating — 1,249 ratings — published 2025 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Haunted House Stories 3.32 avg rating — 22 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Kingdom of Mist and Mourning: A Novel 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2027 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The God of the Woods

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The Everlasting

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Loom and Spindle, or Life Among the Early Mill Girls

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Moody, raw, and suspenseful, My Darling Girls plunges readers into the gritty alleys of early 1900s Chicago, and takes them on an unforgettable journey through the spirit world and into the darkest recesses of the human mind. I absolutely loved it.
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“Read the book, and add what you learn from your own trials. Never stop learning. A lifetime is not long enough to gather up all the knowledge of our kind. That is why we pass it down.”
― Hester Fox, The Witch of Willow Hall: A Chilling Gothic Mystery of Haunted Houses and Ancient Magic

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“Heaven truly was an untouched stash of books, just waiting to be opened and read.”
― Hester Fox, The Last Heir to Blackwood Library

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“Yet at the same time I want to untether my heart, toss it up into the sky and let it take wing. There's a wildness here that, if nothing else, holds promise, possibility. Who needs society? What has it ever done for us?”
― Hester Fox, The Witch of Willow Hall

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Pick our Night Shift Reads books for April, May, and June. Pick the book you would most like to read from the 10 books listed and the top 3 will be our Night Shift books for the 2nd quarter.

What Have You Done? by Shari Lapena

6 votes 20.7%

The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store by James McBride

5 votes 17.2%

The Cabin by Landon Beach

5 votes 17.2%

The Last Heir to Blackwood Library by Hester Fox

4 votes 13.8%

The Good Luck of Right Now by Matthew Quick

2 votes 6.9%

The Rainfall Market by You Yeong-Gwang

2 votes 6.9%

Next Year in Havana by Chanel Cleeton

Next Year in Havana (The Perez Family, #1) by Chanel Cleeton

2 votes 6.9%

Strangers in Time by David Baldacci

2 votes 6.9%

The Ghostwriter by A.R. Torre

1 vote 3.4%

The Senator's Wife by Liz Constantine

0 votes 0.0%

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