Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters, Emily Carpenter
Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters, Emily Carpenter
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Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters

Author: Emily Carpenter

Narrator: Kate Orsini

Unabridged: 10 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/20/2020

Categories: Fiction, Women, Southern, Gothic


Synopsis

The bestselling author of Burying the Honeysuckle Girls returns to uncover a faith healer’s elusive and haunted past.Dove Jarrod was a renowned evangelist and faith healer. Only her granddaughter, Eve Candler, knows that Dove was a con artist. In the eight years since Dove’s death, Eve has maintained Dove’s charitable foundation—and her lies. But just as a documentary team wraps up a shoot about the miracle worker, Eve is assaulted by a vengeful stranger intent on exposing what could be Dove’s darkest secret: murder…Tuscaloosa, 1934: a wily young orphan escapes the psychiatric hospital where she was born. When she joins the itinerant inspirational duo the Hawthorn Sisters, the road ahead is one of stirring new possibilities. And with an obsessive predator on her trail, one of untold dangers. For a young girl to survive, desperate choices must be made.Now, to protect her family, Eve will join forces with the investigative filmmaker and one of Dove’s friends, risking everything to unravel the truth behind the accusations against her grandmother. But will the truth set her free or set her world on fire?

About Emily Carpenter

Emily Carpenter is the bestselling author of four thrillers: Until the Day I Die, Every Single Secret, The Weight of Lies, and Burying the Honeysuckle Girls. A graduate of Auburn University, Emily has worked as an actor, producer, screenwriter, and behind-the-scenes soap opera assistant for CBS television. Raised in Birmingham, Alabama, she moved to New York City before returning to the South, where she now lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her family. Visit Emily at www.emilycarpenterauthor.com.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Chelsea on August 05, 2020

"The figure in the dark wasn't a ghost, or an ephemeral memory from her past, but a real flesh-and-blood man. And he hadn't come as a friend. He'd come for revenge." Emily Carpenter is the queen of lush, atmospheric gothic fiction. She has a way of turning a slow burning mystery into a page turner of......more

Goodreads review by Lindsay L on October 12, 2020

3 stars. Eve’s grandmother, Dove, was a famous faith healer who died eight years ago. As a young woman, Dove was part of the Hawthorn Sisters famous traveling duo. They sang, entertained and “healed” their dedicated followers. Eve has been keeping a shocking secret about her grandmother for years — b......more


Quotes

“Carpenter’s refreshingly modern gothic tale offers great fun.” Publishers Weekly“An exciting, gothic-tinged quest sure to delight fans of women-driven mysteries.” Kirkus Reviews“Prepare to be up late with this one; Reviving the Hawthorn Sisters is simply riveting. This is the kind of book where the past has a pulse—and teeth. It’s a page-turner for sure, with well-drawn, complicated characters whose choices linger long after the last page is turned.” —Joshilyn Jackson, New York Times bestselling author of Never Have I Ever