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How long does it take to read The Presence?

Heather Graham

The Presence by Heather Graham takes about 7 hours 46 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.

About 7 hours 46 minutes

A weekend read

First published 2004. 424 pages, about 116,600 words.

16 days at 30 minutes a day

Estimate based on 275 words per page.

At other speeds

Slow, 150 words a minute 12 hours 57 minutes
Average, 250 words a minute 7 hours 46 minutes
Fast, 400 words a minute 4 hours 52 minutes

The page count is the median across 14 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.

About the book

Toni MacNally and her friends think they've hit on the ultimate moneymaking plan. Buy a run-down Scottish castle. Turn it into a tourist destination. Sweep visitors into a reenactment combining fact and fiction, complete with local history, murder and an imaginary laird named Bruce MacNiall.But when the castle's actual owner--a tall, dark and formidable Scot who shares the fictional laird's name--comes charging in, Toni is shocked. How is it possible he even exists? Toni invented Bruce MacNiall for the performance... yet every particle of his being is eerily familiar.Soon the group is drawn into a real-life murder mystery; young women are being killed, their bodies dumped nearby. And Toni is having sinister dreams in which she sees through the eyes of the killer--dreams that suggest a connection to Laird MacNiall. Bruce claims he wants to help catch the murderer. But can Toni trust him...especially when his ghostly double wanders the forest in the black of night?

Subjects: Castles, Ghost stories, Serial murders, Paranormal, Crimes against, Fiction

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