House of the Seven Gables (Version 2)
In the shadow of a rotting Salem mansion, the Pyncheon family has rotted alongside it. For generations, a curse born of stolen land and bloodshed has clung to the seven-gabled house like fog off the harbor, turning inheritance into imprisonment. When Hepzibah Pyncheon, proud and impoverished, converts her ancestral front parlor into a shop to support her brother Clifford, fresh from twenty-five years in prison for a murder the family never speaks of, she descends into the very mercantile world her ancestors despised. But hope arrives in the form of young Phoebe, whose sunlit presence begins to crack the house's generations of gloom. Beneath the surface, the mysterious lodger Holgrave writes a history of the Pyncheon dead, and his own secrets threaten to either free the family or destroy what remains of it. Hawthorne weaves a dark tale of inherited sin, the poison of wealth, and whether the dead can ever truly release the living.
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Nicodemus, Xe Sands
