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Observing the mansion’s decaying façade, infestation risks, and neglected gardens, she must face practical cleanup while navigating an emotional turning point marked by her cousin’s absence. Guided by a lifelong belief in story-like patterns and by her experience in conservation architecture, she vows to protect the home and honor her uncle’s legacy.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nCover  \nTitle Page  \nChapter 1  \nChapter 2  \nThe Midnight Estate Chapter 3  \nChapter 4  \nThe Midnight Estate Chapter 5  \nThe Midnight Estate Chapter 6  \nThe Midnight Estate Chapter 7  \nThe Midnight Estate Chapter 8  \nChapter 9  \nThe Midnight Estate Chapter 10  \nThe Midnight Estate Chapter 11  \nThe Midnight Estate Chapter 12  \nAuthor ’s Note  \nDiscussion Guide Questions  \nAbout the Author  \nSelect Praise for Kelly Rimmer Also by Kelly Rimmer Copyright  \nAbout the Publisher  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nChapter 1  \nFiona  \nNew South Wales, Australia May 2010  \nMy uncle Tad always said that books have a certain pattern to them—a rhythm in common regardless of genre. Every story has a beginning, a middle and an end, and around those things, you have certain changes in the momentum that readers recognize: rising and falling action, climaxes, black moments. Sometimes you sense an inflection point coming—a certain buildup that you recognize subconsciously, even if you might not be able to explain why. Tad said that life is like that too, and I’ve never felt the wisdom of that statement more than this year.  \nIt’s the palms I spot first as I near Wurimbirra, and the sight of those waving fronds in the distance has my shoulders relaxing, releasing tension I’ve been carrying for far too long. I thought I’d be excited to arrive back here today, but as I steer my car through the concrete gate posts and onto the circular drive, the feeling that washes over me is a lot more like relief. I haven’t lived here for more than thirty years, but for some reason, this is still the place that springs to my mind whenever I hear the word home.  \nI park right outside the front doors and stare up at the facade of the mansion. Built in 1886, Wurimbirra was designed in a Victorian Filigree style—eight enormous bedrooms upstairs and five living spaces downstairs including a grand ballroom. The brick walls are stuccoed, lined to imitate  \nstonework, painted in a once-bright beige that has faded to a weary grey, stained in places by red-brown dust. Verandas surround both stories, the top bounded by friezes and columns and brackets and balustrades. Like much of the interior of the house, that cast iron detail was once a crimson red, but it’s now blistered and patchy. The remaining paint has become rusty and browned—close to the color of dried blood.  \nThe windows are filthy. There are thick nets of spiderwebs in the gaps between surfaces all around the front facade. Knowing this house as I do, that immediately tells me there’s a bad foliage webbing spider infestation. Those little grey-brown spiders aren’t any danger to humans, but Uncle Tad always told me they do attract redbacks—one of the world’s most venomous spiders—and huntsmen, which don’t do humans much harm but they are big and hairy and the mere thought of them makes me shiver in disgust. I make a mental note to call around right away to find an exterminator.  \nI’d call a gardener too, but I can tell immediately that the existing gardens are beyond saving, at least here at the front of the property. Each bed was once a curated mosaic of flowers and carefully shaped shrubs. What’s left after ten years of drought and neglect in the wake of Tad’s death is a collection of sticks poking up from a thick cluster of weeds.  \nThe icy wind seems to slice right through my coat as I slip from my car, the heavy key ring my cousin Jon gave me last night in my hand. He was originally supposed to come with me today, partly because this is a big moment for me and he’s not just my cousin; he’s also my best friend. But there are also practical considerations ahead that involve him too. The house is still full of his dad’s stuff, for a start, and Jon sold me the contents along with the property. We both understood all along that he’d walk through it one last time around settlement to help himself to anything he wished to take. 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