Return to Tradd Street Author: Visit Amazon's Karen White Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0451240596 | Format: EPUB
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Melanie Middleton is 40, single, and pregnant. She hates old houses, and she hates Jack Trenholm, the father of her baby. She doesn’t fit into any of her clothes, and her housekeeper and Jack’s teenage daughter, Nola, are conspiring to get her to eat more flax and fiber. The historic house she inherited in Charleston, South Carolina, is haunted, and now some distant relatives of the previous owner have come to contest her right to live there. Then she discovers a 100-year-old infant skeleton in her backyard and a crib in the attic that matches one in Charleston’s history museum. Things get weirder from there, but Melanie is used to it; she and her mother have been communing with the dead for years. Madcap paranormal, historical mystery, and small-town romance complete with all the requisite quirky side characters collide in the latest and apparently final installment in White’s Tradd Street series. To enjoy its southern charm and romantic angst to the fullest, readers will want to start at the beginning of the series, with The House on Tradd Street (2008). --Susan Maguire
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Praise for the Novels of Karen White
“One of the best new writers on the scene today.”—The Huffington Post
“Spooky, sensual, suspenseful…it’s just too good not to share.”—Southern Literary Review
“An extremely talented and colorful writer with tons of imagination.”—Fresh Fiction
"Warm, real, and exciting."—Publishers Weekly
"The fresh voice of Karen White intrigues and delights."—Sandra Chastain, contributor to At Home in Mossy Creek
"Warmly Southern and deeply moving."—New York Times bestselling author Deborah Smith
"In the tradition of Catherine Anderson and Deborah Smith...Incredibly poignant contemporary bursting with Southern charm."—Patricia Rouse, Rouse's Romance Readers Groups
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- Series: Tradd Street (Book 4)
- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: NAL Trade (January 7, 2014)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0451240596
- ISBN-13: 978-0451240590
- Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Melanie Middleton, the psychic realtor, is back in her Tradd Street home, and no sooner is she settled in, than more problems surface.
This time, a crack appears in the foundation that requires major work. But what is unearthed in the process--the body of a baby that has been dead for many years--will launch another psychic investigation for Melanie. And it will happen at a most inopportune time, as she has discovered she is pregnant. With twins. And the father, Jack Trenholm, has asked her to marry him.
But she has refused, believing that he is only offering out of a sense of obligation.
The push-pull of their relationship kept me rapidly turning pages, wishing that the two of them would set aside their stubbornness and communicate.
And then, out of nowhere, along comes a couple from New York. The Gilberts claim that they are the rightful heirs to the Tradd Street home, and that they have proof. Their supposed link to the family line will require the exhumation of Nevin Vanderhorst's body to check for a DNA match.
Reporters, historians, psychics....all join together to lead the reader on a rollicking journey. The spirits that inhabit the house are angry. One of them appears to Melanie, hissing the word "Mine." What can explain the christening gowns that show up, matching the one discovered in the foundation? Does the mystery somehow involve ancestor John Vanderhorst's two wives, Camille and Charlotte?
Set in Charleston, South Carolina, and narrated in Melanie's first person perspective, I was as enthralled with the characters as I have been in the previous books. Melanie's voice is self-deprecatory and funny, making me root for her and for her love interest, even when she has given up.
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