In this ingenious and subversive twist on the classic gothic novel, the mysterious past of an island mansion lures two sisters into a spiderweb of scandal, secrets, and murder.
Two sisters, strangers since birth yet bound by family secrets, are caught up in a century-old mystery on an isolated island.
After arriving on Block Island to find her birth mother, Blake Bronson becomes convinced she’s the heroine of a gothic novel—the kind that allowed her intermittent escape from a traumatic childhood. How else to explain the torrential rain, the salt-worn mansion known as White Hall, and the restless ghost purported to haunt its halls? But before Blake can discern the novel’s ending, she’s found dead, murdered in a claw-foot tub. The proprietress of White Hall stands accused.
Summoned by a letter sent from Blake before she died, Thalia Mills returns to the island she swore she’d left for good. She finds that Blake wasn’t the first to die at White Hall under suspicious circumstances. Thalia must uncover the real reason for Blake’s demise before the forces conspiring to keep Block Island’s secrets dead and buried rise up to consume her too.
Download and start listening now!
“This compelling and atmospheric thriller pays homage to classic gothic novels while still adding something fresh to the beloved genre…[For] fans of the Brontës but also those who enjoy the creepy, psychological suspense of Simone St. James.”
— Booklist
“Great fun for readers.”
— Kirkus Reviews“A chilling page-turner guaranteed to keep you up all night.”
— Nancy Holder, Lifetime Achievement Award Winner, Horror Writers AssociationBe the first to write a review about this audiobook!
Christa Carmen is the author of the short story collection Something Borrowed, Something Blood-Soaked. Most of her work comes from gazing upon the ghosts of the past or else into the dark corners of nature, those places where whorls of bark become owl eyes and deer step through tunnels of hanging leaves and creeping briars only to disappear. She studied English and psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, has an MA from Boston College and an MFA from the University of Southern Maine. Visit her at www.christacarmen.com.