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Dark August

Katie Tallo

Augusta (Gus) Monet is living an aimless existence with her grifter boyfriend when she inherits her great-grandmother’s house. Ditching her boyfriend, Gus returns home. Her inheritance turns out to be a dilapidated house and an old dog named Levi. While combing through her great grandmother’s possessions, Gus stumbles across an old trunk filled with long-lost childhood belongings. Inside, she discovers cold case files that belonged to her mother, a disgraced police detective who died in a car accident when Gus was eight. Gus remembers her mother obsessing over these documents and photographs. As her own obsession grows, she inadvertently stirs up the evils of the past, putting her life in danger. Undeterred, Gus is committed to uncovering long-buried secrets, including the secrets surrounding a missing geology student, the young ballerina in the Polaroid, a prominent family’s devastating legacy, and a toxic blast that blew an entire town off the map.