The dysfunctional Baker family hopes to reconnect during a month-long vacation at an estate passed down to them by their mysterious aunt, Ava St. James. Complete with its own caretaker, Haven is a sprawling house that provides the perfect retreat. Though the family intends to use this vacation as a fresh start, long-held resentments and rivalries splinter them even further. As tensions rise, unsettling, unexplained occurrences endanger the entire family. Was the family always destined to unravel and implode, or is the house leading them down a sinister path? Dalia’s (
Estate Sale) latest is a dread-filled modern gothic tale where sordid family history and long-buried secrets lie in wait. Rachel L. Jacobs, Jane Oppenheimer, and Rene Ruiz tap into the story’s suffocating atmosphere as they narrate the increasingly difficult family dynamics and the estate’s troubling backstory. The dynamic narration helps listeners navigate shifts in time, which move from the current time period to the era in which the house was built.
VERDICT This spooky listen is highly recommended for gothic fiction readers and fans of Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House.
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