The Visitant, Megan Chance
The Visitant, Megan Chance
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The Visitant
A Venetian Ghost Story

Author: Megan Chance

Narrator: Julia Whelan

Unabridged: 8 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook (DRM Protected)

Published: 09/22/2015

Synopsis

A crumbling palazzo in nineteenth-century Venice holds a buried secret.After she nearly ruins her family with a terrible misstep, Elena Spira is sent to Venice to escape disgrace and to atone by caring for the ailing Samuel Farber. But the crumbling and decaying Ca’ Basilio palazzo, where Samuel is ensconced, holds tragic secrets, and little does Elena know how profoundly they will impact her. Soon she begins to sense that she is being watched by something. And when Samuel begins to have hallucinations that make him violent and unpredictable, she can’t deny she’s in mortal danger.Then impoverished nobleman Nero Basilio, Samuel’s closest friend and the owner of the palazzo, arrives. Elena finds herself entangled with both men in a world where the past seeps into the present and nothing is as it seems. As Elena struggles to discover the haunting truth before it destroys her, a dark force seems to hold Samuel and the Basilio in thrall—is it madness, or something more sinister?

About Megan Chance

Megan Chance is a critically acclaimed, award-winning author of historical fiction. Her novels have been chosen for the Borders Original Voices and Book Sense programs. A former television news photographer and graduate of Western Washington University, Chance lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband and two daughters.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Magdalena aka A Bookaholic Swede on October 28, 2016

Elina Spira is sent to Venice to take care of Samuel Farber at his friend Nero Basilios palazzo. She has almost ruined her family's reputation and this is a way for her to make amends by nursing Samuel back to health after he was rubbed when he had an epileptic seizure. They start off on the wrong f......more

Goodreads review by Stacey on January 22, 2021

Absolutely love this novel! Atmospheric, creepy, sexy...so good. 💙🖤......more

Goodreads review by Geeknpastry on February 24, 2017

I wanted a ghost story. A nice thriller. I got a melodramatic romance with a ghost.......more

Goodreads review by S. Christine Blackard on May 25, 2017

Extremely...almost painfully...predictable. I am not saying this to be funny nor am I trying to be scathing or harsh, I mean this literally -- this is not a book for anyone who tends toward novels involving paranormal phenomena because of the creative topics, adventures, unique world building, chara......more

Goodreads review by Charlene on September 21, 2015

While the book title already gives away that this is a ghost story, I thought the building of the story was unique in that it didn't seem quite like a ghost story right away. It helps that the main character, Elena, has her secrets, and the mystery of her past, as well as the severity of Samuel's ep......more

Quotes

“Kitsap Peninsula author Megan Chance returns to the haunting, atmospheric milieu of her last novel (Inamorata)—Venice in the late nineteenth century—for this new novel about three people and a decaying mansion full of secrets...As a romantic triangle develops and the plot advances, Chance’s command of hinting nuances sets the stage for the reader’s unease.” —The Seattle Times“The Visitant: A Venetian Ghost Story is a wonderfully drawn Gothic tale...[evoking] everything that is wonderful in the genre: secretive characters, an old house, and of course, ghosts and demons...The Visitant will keep readers turning pages well into the night.” —Historical Novel Society

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