Susan Meissner. (2011). A Sound Among the Trees: A Novel. The Crown Publishing Group.

Susan Meissner. 2011. A Sound Among the Trees: A Novel. The Crown Publishing Group.

Susan Meissner, A Sound Among the Trees: A Novel. The Crown Publishing Group, 2011.

Susan Meissner. A Sound Among the Trees: A Novel. The Crown Publishing Group, 2011.

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     Award-winning writer Susan Meissner is a multi-published author, speaker and workshop leader with a background in community journalism. Her novels include The Shape of Mercy, named by Publishers Weekly as one of the Best Books of 2008. She is a pastor’s wife and a mother of four. When she's not writing, Susan directs the Small Groups and Connection Ministries program at her San Diego church.

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A house shrouded in time.
A line of women with a heritage of loss.

As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly Oak, doesn’t believe that Susannah’s ghost haunts the antebellum mansion looking for a pardon, but rather the house itself bears a grudge toward its tragic past.

When Marielle Bishop marries into the family and is transplanted from the arid west to her husband’s home, it isn’t long before she is led to believe that the house she just settled into brings misfortune to the women who live there.

With Adelaide’s richly peppered superstitions and deep family roots at stake, Marielle must sort out the truth about Susannah Page and Holly Oak— and make peace with the sacrifices she has made for love.    

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   • content: "Meissner delivers a delightful page-turner that will surely enthrall readers from beginning to end. The antebellum details, lively characters, and overlapping dramas particularly will excite history buffs and romance fans."
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     A woman marries into a Southern family with a dark past in this mystery about love and loss. Marielle Bishop meets her future husband, Carson, online and moves to the steamy Virginia hills from her home in the arid Phoenix desert. She soon learns that the family’s stately mansion, Holly Oak, houses more than just her new family. Ever since the Civil War, the Bishop family has been afflicted with hardship and strife—with many locals blaming their troubles on the estate’s alleged haunting. Suspicious herself, Marielle decides to investigate Susannah Page—the family’s former matriarch and spy during the Civil War—to figure out why her spirit refuses to leave the property. Meissner (The Shape of Mercy) delivers a delightful page-turner that will surely enthrall readers from beginning to end. The antebellum details, lively characters, and overlapping dramas particularly will excite history buffs and romance fans.

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     Adelaide is the matriarch of Holly Oak, an antebellum mansion said to be haunted by the ghost of her great-grandmother, Susannah Page. But Adelaide believes that it is not Susannah but the house that has brought nothing but loss to her, including a daughter addicted to drugs and the death of a granddaughter. When Carson, the granddaughter's widower, remarries a young woman from the West, Adelaide has nothing but contempt for the new bride. But Marielle soon gets caught up in the mystery of Holly Oak. VERDICT Meissner (The Shape of Mercy) shifts between the past and present with some success, although the switching of time periods can be confusing. Rich dialog and the hint of long-buried secrets help move the story. This might be enjoyed by fans of Michael Phillips, whose novels also focus on family secrets.

     Copyright 2011 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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