The Winters
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3.8 • 9 Ratings
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Publisher Description
HOW DO YOU REPLACE THE PERFECT WIFE?
Inspired by the classic novel Rebecca, The Winters is a riveting story about what happens when a family's ghosts resurface and threaten to upend everything.
After a whirlwind romance, a young woman returns to the opulent, secluded mansion of her new fiancé Max Winter - a wealthy senator and recent widower - and a life of luxury she's never known. But all is not as it appears at the Asherley estate. The house is steeped in the memory of Max's beautiful first wife Rebekah, who haunts the young woman's imagination and feeds her uncertainties, while his very alive teenage daughter Dani makes her life a living hell.
As the soon-to-be second Mrs. Winter grows more in love with Max, and more afraid of Dani, she is drawn deeper into the family's dark secrets - the kind of secrets that could kill her, too.
'A stylish, highly original and completely addictive take on du Maurier's Rebecca. Read it!' Shari Lapena, bestselling author of Someone We Know
'A sharp exercise in psychological suspense' Guardian
'It's as beautifully written as it is (re)plotted and the updating of the characters is superb. Fabulous - and not just for Rebecca fans' Daily Mail
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Set in the glamorous Hamptons, The Winters is a smart and sexy re-telling of Daphne du Maurier’s Rebecca. Our heroine, who remains unnamed as she was in the original, moves into her widowed fiancé’s opulent home and is disturbed by the eerie presence of his ex-wife, Rebekah. If you’ve read the 1938 Gothic tale, then the sinister modern flourishes—cue stalking a teenage step-daughter’s Instagram—will give you new chills, while strangers to the story will get swept up in the atmospheric tension. Lisa Gabriele’s suspenseful prose is haunting from the moment we first enter the dark and decadent Asherley mansion.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
When Max Winter, a New York state senator, comes into the life of the insecure 26-year-old unnamed narrator of this creepy, atmospheric homage to Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca from Gabriele (The Almost Archer Sisters), she's working at a boat charter in the Caymans. After only a month, they're engaged and heading off to Asherley, Max's secluded Long Island estate, where his 15-year-old daughter, Dani, awaits. Dani has always been difficult, but the death of her mother, Rebekah, in a fiery car crash a year and a half earlier, has brought her to the edge, and she has no interest in her father's new fianc e, who adores Max and is eager to forge a relationship with Dani. The diabolical Dani has other ideas. Faced with Max's frequent absences, the narrator feels alienated at Asherley, which seems to be infused with the very essence of its former mistress, yet she seems to be making progress with Dani. However, on their explosive wedding day, the new Mrs. Winter realizes she never truly knew her husband at all. Gabriele keeps the tension high up to the surprising and satisfying final twist. Du Maurier fans will be pleased.
