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2023 Claymore Award Winner

The Cottage

Quiet. That is what grumpy, loss-ridden George Morgan wants. When he unexpectedly inherits a cottage at the edge of some deserted woods, he thinks he’s found his hideaway.Until the ghosts of 150 years ago start knocking at his cottage door.George is the end of his family line—but the family history is by no means dead. The ghosts at the door are not ghosts at all. And those uninhabited woods behind the cottage have an awful lot of inhabitants in them: nosy neighbors who have been trapped in time for more than a century, and a crazy, albeit beautiful lady who runs the forgotten town by…uncanny means.George has more left to care for than he realized. But someone of extraordinary power is stalking his every move, and options are running out. George has only his own past and a haunting piece of music to save himself and the townspeople, before he loses the last of all he loves.The Cottage is a magical realism novel set in the American Midwest. While it’s geared toward ages 18-30, it will appeal to a wide age range and has received high praise from middle grade to adult readers.

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N.D. Haupt was born and raised in Colorado. She has mountains and snow in her blood but has since relocated to Tennessee with her husband and three children. Tennessee has hills, and rain, and a vast variety of trees, so all is well.Haupt is the author of The Cottage, a Claymore Award-winning novel released in October 2024 by Nogginnose Press. She contributed to a variety of non-fiction publications from 2017-2019 and is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from New Saint Andrews College in Moscow, Idaho.When not writing, she homeschools her rapidly growing children, tries to whomp her husband at Scrabble, plays music, wrangles chickens, attempts to garden, and perfects her gluten-free baking skills.

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