The Winters

Zusatztext 86077464 Informationen zum Autor Lisa Gabriele  is the author of two literary novels. Her writing has appeared in  Glamour !  Vice ! and  Salon  as well as various anthologies! including  The Best American Nonrequired Reading . She lives in Toronto! where she is an award-winning television producer. Klappentext "A stylish! highly original and completely addictive take on du Maurier's Rebecca. Read it!" -Shari Lapena! New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door "Dark and richly atmospheric. . . A bewitching novel about love! lies! and the ghosts that never quite leave us alone." -Bustle Some secrets never stay buried After a whirlwind romance! a young woman returns to the opulent! secluded Long Island mansion of her new fiancé Max Winter-a wealthy politician and recent widower-and a life of luxury she's never known. But all is not as it appears at the Asherley estate. The house is steeped in the memory of Max's beautiful first wife Rebekah! who haunts the young woman's imagination and feeds her uncertainties! while his very alive teenage daughter Dani makes her life a living hell. She soon realizes there is no clear place for her in this twisted little family: Max and Dani circle each other like cats! a dynamic that both repels and fascinates her! and he harbors political ambitions with which he will allow no woman-alive or dead-to interfere. As the soon-to-be second Mrs. Winter grows more in love with Max! and more afraid of Dani! she is drawn deeper into the family's dark secrets-the kind of secrets that could kill her! too. The Winters is a riveting story about what happens when a family's ghosts resurface and threaten to upend everything. One Last night Rebekah tried to murder me again. It had been a while since I'd had that dream, not since we left Asherley, a place I called home for one winter and the bitterest part of spring, the dream only ever recurring when Max was gone and I'd find myself alone with Dani. As always, the dream begins with Asherley in the distance, shining from afar in a bright clearing. There is no greenhouse, nor boathouse, just a stand of red canoes stabbed into the pebbly beach. In fact, the Asherley of my dream looks more like it might have back in its whaling days, when from the highest turret you could still spot tall ships dotting Gardiners Bay. Overpowered by the urge to be inside the house again, I pass easily through the thicket of forest that surrounds the property. I want so badly to wander its wood-paneled halls, to feel its plush red carpets beneath my bare feet, to move my fingers in the play of sun through the stained-glass windows, but an invisible force keeps me out. I'm relegated to the bay, where I float like a sad specter, made to watch those who still haunt Asherley act out the same strange pantomime. I can see Max, my Max, relaxing on an Adirondack, one in a line like white teeth dotting the silvery-green lawn. He's reading a newspaper, framed by the majestic spread of Asherley behind him, its walls of gray stones, its crowd of terra-cotta peaks, its dentils studded with carved rosettes, anchored by the heavy brow of its deep stone porch. Every lamp in every room of the house is lit. A fire roars in every fireplace. The circle of windows at the top of the high turret burns like a sentinel over the bay, as though the house were about to put on a great show for me. I call for Max but he can't hear me. I want to go to him, to touch his face, to smell his hair, to fit my shoulder under his arm, our sides pressed together. My throat feels strangled with that longing. On cue, she strides out the back door, carefully balancing a tray of lemonade. She's wearing a white lace dress with a red sash, her blond hair glinting in the sun, her face so eerily symmetrical she'd almost be odd-looking except for the sin...

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Gabriele
• Publisher: Viking USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.10.2018
• EAN: 9780525559702
• ISBN: 978-0-525-55970-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 28 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature