A SOUND AMONG THE TREES

by

Susan Meissner

ISBN: 978-0-307-45885-8

Paperback, 352 pages

Waterbrook Press

Publisher's Description

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.

My Thoughts:

Susan Meissner has written a very interested tale about an old historical house located in Virginia.  The matriarch of Holly Oak is the great-granddaughter Adelaide of Susannah Page.
When Adelaide's granddaughter Sara was brought to her by Adelaide's daughter when she was a baby and left for her to raise. Sara had been raised in this house and married and had two children but she and the baby died when she tried to have her third child, but her husband Carson and children continued to live there.   When Carson decided to re-marry he brought his new bride Marielle to live there also, even though he really was not related to Adelaide anymore.

Everyone in the town though the old house was haunted by Susanne and Adelaide's friends she called "The old blue haired ladies" really didn't let it rest, they went as far as to bring in someone that could tell if there was a spirit located in the home.

I found this book so very interesting as Adelaide made Civil war uniforms for the rein-actors and I also did this for a few years so it was really interested to me.   I related to all she talked about when she was sewing the garments, but the funny thing about this was that "The Real Uniforms" has also been made in the house during the Civil War.  And a cannon ball still was en-bedded in the side of the house.

Thanks so much to Blogging for Books for sending me this advanced readers copy to read and review.