CHRISTMAS HOMECOMING, A by Anne Perry - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK
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Among the brilliant array of Anne Perry’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 novels—Charlotte’s
mother, Caroline—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
Netheridge’s financial backing for their spring tour keeps them at
work.
As tempers flare and wind and snow swirl around
Netheridge’s lonely hilltop mansion, a black-cloaked stranger emerges
from the storm—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 murder—shocking and
terrifying.
Anne Perry’s ninth Christmas novel keeps us poised on a
razor’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.
