02346cam a2200433 i 4500 381808400 TxAuBib 20190506120000.0 141219s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012287741 9781605985725 1605985724 (OCoLC)858843460 TxAuBib rda Benedict, Laura, 1962- Bliss House / Laura Benedict. First Pegasus books cloth edition June 2014. New York : Pegasus Crime, 2014. 446 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Amidst the lush farmland and orchards in Old Gate, Virginia, stands the magnificent Bliss House. Built in 1878 as a country retreat, Bliss House is impressive, historic, and inexplicably mysterious. Decades of strange occurrences, disappearances and deaths have plagued the house, yet it remains vibrant. And very much alive. 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. Who is the murderer in the midst of this small town? And who killed the woman in Ariel's visions? But Bliss House is loath to reveal its secrets, as are the good folks of Old Gate. 20190506. Widows Fiction. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Haunted houses Fiction. Haunted houses. Mothers and daughters. Widows. Ghost stories. Virginia Fiction. Virginia. Fiction. Ghost stories. Horror fiction. Mystery fiction. Horror fiction.