"The Haunted Homestead: A Novel" by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth is a story set in the late 1800s, weaving friendship, love, and the supernatural together inside a mysterious and haunted estate. The story starts with Agnes, a young woman who loves adventure and is curious about ghosts, visits her close friend Mathilde Legare at her family’s estate for Christmas, a place called Wolfbrake connected to a mystery from the past involving Madeleine Van Der Vaughan. Mathilde knows of the ghostly stories surrounding the estate, which only fuels Agnes' curiosity as she travels there. Soon after she arrives, strange things begin to happen and she sees a ghost during vivid dreams, and this sets the stage for a story that mixes romance with ghostly happenings as the characters work through secrets of the haunted estate.
The Haunted Homestead: A Novel
By Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
In a chilling estate, a woman chasing spectral mysteries must unravel chilling secrets of a haunted estate.
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About the AuthorEmma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth was an American writer of more than 60 novels in the latter part of the 19th century. She was the most popular American novelist of her day.
Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth was an American writer of more than 60 novels in the latter part of the 19th century. She was the most popular American novelist of her day.
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