Free Audio Book : The Daughters of Block Island, by Christa Carmen

In this clever and rebellious reinterpretation of the traditional gothic novel, the enigmatic history of an island estate entices two sisters into a tangled web of intrigue, secrets, and homicide.

Two siblings, unfamiliar to each other since birth yet tied by familial mysteries, find themselves embroiled in an age-old enigma on a secluded island.

Upon reaching Block Island in search of her biological mother, Blake Bronson is persuaded that she’s the protagonist of a gothic tale—the type that provided her sporadic respite from a distressing upbringing. What else could justify the pouring rain, the sea-weathered mansion known as White Hall, and the unsettled specter alleged to haunt its corridors? However, before Blake can unravel the novel’s conclusion, she’s discovered lifeless, slain in a claw-foot bathtub. The owner of White Hall is indicted.

Summoned by a missive dispatched by Blake prior to her death, Thalia Mills revisits the island she vowed she’d abandoned permanently. She discovers that Blake wasn’t the first to perish at White Hall under dubious conditions. Thalia must unearth the true cause of Blake’s death before the powers scheming to maintain Block Island’s secrets interred and forgotten rise to engulf her as well.