The Island of Small Misfortunes

by Jackson Kuhl

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Pub Date Mar 25 2025 | Archive Date Mar 02 2025

General Fiction (Adult)

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Description

In the summer of 1898, Sequoia Owen accepts an invitation from his estranged uncle to visit his family’ s summer home on Todeket, a private island off the Connecticut coast. Yet the house, constructed by Sequoia's unstable grandfather and the site of his cousin's mysterious death, is a strange place. None of his odd relatives, who seem to have sinister agendas of their own, can agree upon the origin of the house, nor do they all believe the sightings of a ghost that haunts its halls, said to appear before tragedy strikes. Trapped on the island by a storm, Sequoia must unravel the enigma of Todeket before the next life lost is his own.

In the summer of 1898, Sequoia Owen accepts an invitation from his estranged uncle to visit his family’ s summer home on Todeket, a private island off the Connecticut coast. Yet the...

A Note From the Publisher

Jackson Kuhl is the author of two Gothic short novels, The Island of Small Misfortunes and A Season of Whispers, as well as the Revolutionary War biography, Samuel Smedley, Connecticut Privateer. Kuhl has written for Atlas Obscura, the Hartford Courant, the Journal of the American Revolution, and other publications. His short fiction has appeared in numerous anthologies. Kuhl lives in coastal Connecticut.

Jackson Kuhl is the author of two Gothic short novels, The Island of Small Misfortunes and A Season of Whispers, as well as the Revolutionary War biography, Samuel Smedley, Connecticut Privateer...