Beneath the Poet's House

For a grieving writer, the secrets of the past and present converge in a novel of gripping psychological suspense from the author of The Daughters of Block Island. Unmoored by her husbands death and suffering from writers block, novelist Saoirse White moves to Providence, and into the historic home of Sarah Helen Whitman, the nineteenth-century poet and spiritualist once courted by Edgar Allan Poe. Saoirses certain shell find inspiration in the quiet rooms, as well as in the tucked-away rose garden and forgotten cemetery at the back of the property. Saoirse is immediately welcomed by an effusive trio of transcendentalists obsessed with Whitman, the house, and Whitmans mystic beliefs. Saoirse, emerging from grief and loneliness, welcomes the idea of new friends taking her mind off the pasteven as they hope to summon it. When she meets Emmit Powell, a charismatic and charming prize-winning author, Saoirse thinks shes finally turned a corner. Emboldened by new romance, Saoirse begins to write again and, through her writing, rediscover herself. But as old fears return, she finds that nothing about her new life is what it seemsand a secret shes tried so hard to bury may not be the only thing that comes back to haunt her.