For attendees to the Ashland Public Library Event with Christa Carmen and JW Ocker on Saturday, January 31 and moderated by Bracken MacLeod, please pre-order your books to ensure we have sufficient copies for everyone and we'll bring then to the event for you. Easy peasy! If you are unable to attend in person, you may purchase a book to be signed or inscribed. Just reply to your order confirmation with any special requests. For a grieving writer, the secrets of the past and present converge in a novel of gripping psychological suspense from the author of The Daughters of Block Island. Unmoored by her husband’s death and suffering from writer’s block, novelist Saoirse White moves to Providence, and into the historic home of Sarah Helen Whitman, the nineteenth-century poet and spiritualist once courted by Edgar Allan Poe. Saoirse’s certain she’ll find inspiration in the quiet rooms, as well as in the tucked-away rose garden and forgotten cemetery at the back of the property. Saoirse is immediately welcomed by an effusive trio of transcendentalists obsessed with Whitman, the house, and Whitman’s mystic beliefs. Saoirse, emerging from grief and loneliness, welcomes the idea of new friends taking her mind off the past—even as they hope to summon it. When she meets Emmit Powell, a charismatic and charming prize-winning author, Saoirse thinks she’s finally turned a corner. Emboldened by new romance, Saoirse begins to write again and, through her writing, rediscover herself. But as old fears return, she finds that nothing about her new life is what it seems—and a secret she’s tried so hard to bury may not be the only thing that comes back to haunt her. Paperback: 336 pages Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (November 12, 2024) ISBN-13: 978-1662513275
