num_pages: 320
description: Inspired by Daphne du Mauriers Rebecca a spellbindingly suspenseful novel set in the moneyed world of the Hamptons about secrets that refuse to remain buried and consequences that cant be escapedAfter a whirlwind romance a young woman returns to the opulent secluded Long Island mansion of her new fianc Max Wintera wealthy politician and recent widowerand a life of luxury shes never known. But all is not as it appears at the Asherley estate. The house is steeped in the memory of Maxs beautiful first wife Rebekah who haunts the young womans imagination and feeds her uncertainties while his very alive teenage daughter Dani makes her life a living hell. She soon realizes there is no clear place for her in this twisted little family: Max and Dani circle each other like cats a dynamic that both repels and fascinates her and he harbors political ambitions with which he will allow no womanalive or deadto interfere.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 familys dark secretsthe kind of secrets that could kill her too. The Winters is a riveting story about what happens when a familys ghosts resurface and threaten to upend everything.
language: English
title: The Winters
publisher: Viking