The Nightingale Bones, Ariel Swan
The Nightingale Bones, Ariel Swan
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The Nightingale Bones

Author: Ariel Swan

Narrator: Jennifer Pickens

Unabridged: 10 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/08/2024

Synopsis

Someone has been waiting a long time for Alice Towne to arrive in Hawthorne.Two hundred years, in fact.Trying to accept her mother's belief that the women of the Towne family are blessed, not cursed, with supernatural abilities, twenty-seven-year old Alice leaves a disapproving Boston husband to housesit for the summer in tiny Hawthorne, a historic village famous in the 1800s for its peppermint farms and the large, herbal-essence distilleries that flourished around the Massachusetts township.She settles into a beautiful old home with a tragic reputation. There are said to be sightings and sounds from the spirit of a young woman who hanged herself after all her children died there of illnesses in the 1900s.But soon, Alice experiences firsthand encounters that convince her the spirit is not who people think. The truth is shocking, steeped in the town's distillery history and its legends of a local wizard and witchcraft. As she falls in love with a local farmer whose family legacy is as tangled in the magick and the mystery as her own, Alice's fear becomes not whether the past can be resolved . . . but whether it's waiting to claim new victims.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mauoijenn on January 05, 2015

*NetGalley book review* This book was an okay story but it just was slow through the whole book. I wish it would have been a tab bit faster but oh well. Slow long drawn out suspense but it never ended in the big bang that you would expect. Not really what I was looking for.......more

Goodreads review by Lorna on October 16, 2014

I love old fashioned ghost stories, and always have. That’s kind of what I thought I was getting with this book, and in a way I did, but it ended up being a lot more than that. However, that’s not always a good thing. Alice Towne is in the midst of a divorce, has no place to live, no job, and is pret......more

Goodreads review by Nannika on December 15, 2025

Random, oddly placed romance in the midst of a very slow story.......more

Goodreads review by Emily Kestrel on May 22, 2016

I noticed this book had mixed reviews and a low aggregate rating, but the story sounded interesting, so I decided to try it anyway. I often enjoy things that no one else seems to like. In this case, though, I have to admit I should have paid attention to the lower ratings. The story concerns a young......more

Goodreads review by Nichole on October 23, 2014

I received this book from NetGalley and was blown away! This is a great story. I won't give anything away, but this book has magic, history, mystery, love. The main character Alice is just trying to get her life back together, and find herself in the process. The town of Hawthorne has other plans fo......more

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