Anne Perry
Among the brilliant array of Anne Perryâ€™s New York Times bestselling novels, her Christmas stories occupy perhaps the warmest spot in the hearts of readers. Each one is a masterpiece of suspense; each is alight with the true holiday spirit.,In A Christmas Homecoming, a familiar face from the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novelsâ€”Charlotteâ€™s mother, Carolineâ€”travels with her young husband, Joshua Fielding, and his theatrical troupe to Whitby, the Yorkshire fishing village where Dracula the vampire first touched English soil in the sensational novel named after him. Joshua has arranged to produce a stage adaptation of Dracula by the daughter of Whitby millionaire Charles Netheridge during the Christmas holiday, but after the disastrous first read-through of her amateurish script, only the fact that the company is depending on Netheridgeâ€™s financial backing for their spring tour keeps them at work. ,As tempers flare and wind and snow swirl around Netheridgeâ€™s lonely hilltop mansion, a black-cloaked stranger emerges from the stormâ€”an eerily opportune arrival, for this enigmatic figure, one Anton Ballin, turns out to be a theatrical genius. At the same time, a brooding evil makes itself felt. Instead of the theatrical triumph that Netheridge desired for his daughter, there is murderâ€”shocking and terrifying.,Anne Perryâ€™s ninth Christmas novel keeps us poised on a razorâ€™s edge of suspense, hypnotized by a story in which the heartwarming power of goodness is challenged by the seductive power of inner darkness. In the end, A Christmas Homecoming lifts the spirit and rejoices the heart.
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A Christmas Homecoming (Christmas Stories, #9)