The Winters
Books | Fiction / Gothic
3.8
Lisa Gabriele
"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.
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Author
Lisa Gabriele
Pages
309
Publisher
Penguin Random House LLC
Published Date
2018
ISBN
0525559701 9780525559702
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"A spellbinding reinterpretation of the [b:Rebecca|17899948|Rebecca|Daphne du Maurier|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1386605169s/17899948.jpg|46663] story for the 21st century, maintaining the creepy, paranoid atmosphere of DuMaurier's classic. The heroine, gutsier and more independent than in the original is still socially awkward and overwhelmed, yet Gabriele brilliantly converts the maniacal, obsessed housekeeper Mrs Danvers into the maniacal, obsessed teenage Dani; daughter of Max and Rebecca. But don't be fooled; there are shocks and horrors aplenty even for those who think they know exactly where the story is going."
"This book started slow but I persevered and Man what a conclusion!!!"
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