The Strangers on Montagu Street
By (Author) Karen White
3
Penguin Putnam Inc
Signet
1st November 2011
United States
General
Fiction
Fiction: literary and general non-genre
Horror, ghost stories and supernatural fiction
FIC
Paperback
352
Width 140mm, Height 209mm, Spine 21mm
295g
Charleston psychic Melanie Middleton discovers the past isn't finished revealing unsettling secrets in the third novel in the New York Times bestselling Tradd Street series. With her relationship with writer Jack Treholm as shaky as the foundation of her family home, Melanie's juggling a number of problems. Like restoring her Tradd Street house...and resisting her mother's pressure to 'go public' with her talent-a sixth sense that unites them to the lost souls of the dead. But Melanie never anticipated her new problem. Her name is Nola, Jack's estranged young daughter who appears on their doorstep, damaged, lonely and defiantly immune to her father's attempts to reconnect. Melanie understands the emotional chasm all too well. As a special, bonding gift Jack's mother buys Nola an antique dollhouse-a precious tableaux of a perfect Victorian family. Melanie hopes the gift will help thaw Nola's reserve and draw her into the family she's never known. At first, Nola is charmed, and Melanie is delighted-until night falls, and the most unnerving shadows are cast within its miniature rooms. By the time Melanie senses a malevolent presence she fears it may already be too late. A new family has accepted her unwitting invitation to move in-with their own secrets, their own personal demons, and a past that's drawing Nola into their own inescapable darkness...
Praise for New York Times bestselling author Karen White
There is a rhythm to the writing of Karen White. It has a pace, a beat, a cadence that is all its own.The Huffington Post
Whites dizzying carousel of a plot keeps those pages turning, so much so that the book can [be]and should befinished in one afternoon, interrupted only by a glass of sweet iced tea.Oprah.com
White captures the true essence of Charleston by intertwining the sights and smells of the historic town with an enchanting story filled with ghostly spirits, love, and forgivenessa once-in-a-lifetime series.Fresh Fiction
This is storytelling of the highest order: the kind of book that leaves you both deeply satisfied and aching for more.Beatriz Williams, New York Times bestselling author of Tiny Little Thing
Readers will find Whites prose an uplifting experience as she is a truly gifted storyteller.Las Vegas Review-Journal
Karen Whiteis theNew York Timesbestselling author of more than twenty novels, including the Tradd Street series, The Night the Lights Went Out,Flight Patterns,The Sound of Glass,A Long Time Gone, andThe Time Between. She is the coauthor ofThe Forgotton RoomwithNew York Timesbestselling authors Beatriz Williams and Lauren Willig. She grew up in London but now lives with her husband and two children near Atlanta, Georgia.