Bliss House, Laura Benedict
Bliss House, Laura Benedict
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Bliss House

Author: Laura Benedict

Narrator: Susan Ericksen

Unabridged: 14 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/24/2014

Categories: Fiction, Ghost

Synopsis

Amidst lush farmland and orchards in Old Gate, Virginia, stands the magnificent Bliss House. Built in 1878, Bliss House is impressive, historic, and inexplicably mysterious. Rainey Bliss Adams desperately needed a new start when she and her daughter Ariel relocated from St. Louis to Old Gate and settled into the house where the Bliss family had lived for over a century. Rainey's husband had been killed in a freak explosion that left her 14 year-old daughter Ariel scarred and disfigured. At the grand housewarming party, Bliss House begins to reveal itself again. Ariel sees haunting visions: the ghost of her father, and the ghost of a woman being pushed to her death off of an upper floor balcony, beneath an exquisite dome of painted stars. And then there is a death the night of the party...

About Laura Benedict

Laura Benedict is the Edgar- and ITW Thriller Award- nominated author of seven novels of suspense, including the forthcoming The Stranger Inside. Her Bliss House gothic trilogy includes: The Abandoned Heart, Charlotte's Story, and Bliss House. Laura's short fiction has appeared in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and in numerous anthologies like Thrillers: 100 Must-Reads, The Lineup: 20 Provocative Women Writers, and St. Louis Noir. A native of Cincinnati, she lives in Southern Illinois with her family.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Magdalena aka A Bookaholic Swede on November 06, 2016

I read Charlotte's Story a little while ago and was so enthralled by that book that I immediately bought this book; the first book in the trilogy. Charlotte's Storytook place in the 50s and this book story takes place in present time and that means that some, not many, characters from Charlotte's S......more

Goodreads review by Sheila on February 06, 2017

3 stars--I liked the book. (Warnings for sexual violence.) Out of the three Bliss House novels, I think this was the most graphically violent--and also had the fewest ghosts! I would have been pretty confused by this book (and the second one as well) if I had read them in order; if you want to read t......more

Goodreads review by C. (Comment, never msg). on February 03, 2017

A story's approach is everything. "Bliss House" had great ingredients but the angle was skewed. Characters' backgrounds don't matter as long as a riveting discovery of spirits is built around them. Unfortunately this story was largely about the daughter's and Mother's recent tragedy, alternated with......more

Goodreads review by Skye on July 03, 2017

Bliss House, a lush mansion that promises hope and happy beginnings for newly widowed Rainey and her injured daughter Ariel, is anything but a safe haven. It is a house of foreboding, dark secrets, frightening chambers, and inescapable horrors. Bliss House has a mind of its own and deceives all who......more

Goodreads review by Sandra on June 27, 2014

What a crazy good haunted house story! Benedict drew me in immediately and I read it straight through (including at stop lights on my way home from work). The brilliantly woven relationships, history, suspense, and mystery make BLISS HOUSE one of my favorites this year.......more

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