Bliss House

Written by Laura Benedict

Narrated by Susan Ericksen

Amidst lush farmland and orchards in Old Gate, Virginia, stands the magnificent Bliss House. Built in 1878, Bliss House is impressive, historic, and inexplicably mysterious. Rainey Bliss Adams desperately needed a new start when she and her daughter Ariel relocated from St. Louis to Old Gate and settled into the house where the Bliss family had lived for over a century. Rainey’s husband had been killed in a freak explosion that left her 14 year-old daughter Ariel scarred and disfigured. At the grand housewarming party, Bliss House begins to reveal itself again. Ariel sees haunting visions: the ghost of her father, and the ghost of a woman being pushed to her death off of an upper floor balcony, beneath an exquisite dome of painted stars. And then there is a death the night of the party...

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dreamscape Media Audio
• Release date: Jun 24, 2014
• ISBN: 9781629238692

Laura Benedict

Laura Benedict is the author of several novels of dark suspense, including Isabella Moon and Devil's Oven. Her essays and short fiction have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine as well as numerous anthologies, and she originated and edited the Surreal South short fiction anthology series. She lives with her family in Carbondale, Illinois.

Reviews for Bliss House

[branc-2 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

What a fabulous book! I loved everything about it. The setting, characters...the House! Last time I fell in love with a house like this was Anne Rice's The Witching Hour. Highly recommended!

[arielfl · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Rainey and her daughter move to Bliss house after an accident that takes the life of Ariel's father and seriously scars her. Not long after they move in strange things occur that seem to be related to the former occupants of the house. I read through the first two hundred pages like lightning. I was engrossed by both the present day story and the one that was taking place in the past. Somewhere in the middle the plot started dragging and I just lost interest in it. A haunted house book is usually my favorite kind but I lost my reading momentum and it was like slogging through mud to get through the last two hundred pages. The characters actions started straining credulity and I lost interest in the plot.

[sparemethecensor · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Average small town/haunted house mystery that falls short of going to the next level. Serviceable fluff read, but could have been so much more with additional character development within the family.