By Susan Meissner
Published by WaterBrook Press
In Susan Meissner’s newest novel A Sound Among the Trees, Marielle Bishop––an environmental grant writer from Arizona––leaves everything she’s ever known behind in order to start a new life with her husband Carson and his two children from a previous marriage. For the sake of the children, Marielle agrees to move to Virginia and into Carson’s grandmother-in-law Adelaide’s home, Holly Oak, where the matriarch still resides.
Holly Oak is a fortress as historically significant as it is supernaturally feared. Rumored to be haunted by Susannah Page, Adelaide’s great-grandmother and suspected Civil War spy; the house is filled with relics of the past. Adelaide herself believes that Holly Oak is cursed, holding a grudge against the female line of the family. Marielle however, is haunted more by the memory of Sara, Carson’s late wife and the mother of his children. Yet the longer Marielle lives in Holly Oak, rumors swirling and unfamiliar surroundings playing to her swirling emotions, Marielle can’t help but be caught up on the intrigue.
Taking matters into her own hands, Marielle sets out to uncover the truth of Holly Oak, and in so doing, discovers more about the house and its past occupants, than she ever imagined. Holly Oak holds a lifetime of secrets, misconceptions and loss that have imprisoned its occupants for decades. Marielle hopes to break the bonds that have imprisoned this family before its too late.
Highly suspenseful, A Sound Among the Trees is a poignant and haunting novel filled with twists and turns that will keep you enthralled to the last page.
Download Chapter One of A Sound Among the Trees here: http://waterbrookmultnomah.com/2011/04/13/sneak-peek-a-sound-among-the-trees-by-susan-meissner/
I received this book free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group as part of their BloggingForBooks program. I was not required to write a positive review and the opinions I have expressed are my own.
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