The Evening Spider: A Novel Audiobook (Free)

A gripping mixture of psychological suspense and historical true crime, this riveting novel-inspired by a sensational real-life murder through the 1800s-by critically acclaimed writer Emily Arsenault delivers a heart-stopping mystery linking two young mothers from different decades.

Frances Barnett and Abby Bernacki are two haunted teen mothers surviving in the same home in two different decades.

1885: Frances Barnett is within the Northampton Lunatic Hospital, telling her story to a visitor. She’s about The Evening Spider: A Novel come to distrust her very own memories, and feels that her being pregnant, birth, and start of motherhood may have impaired her sanity.

Through the earliest months of her baby’s life, Frances eagerly adopted the famous murder trial of Mary Stannard-that captivated New Englanders using its salacious points and expert forensic testimony. Following-and actually attending-this trial, Frances discovered an escape through the monotony of fresh motherhood. But simply because her tale unfolds, Frances must admit that her obsession with the facts from the murder were not entirely innocent.

Present day: Abby has been adjusting to motherhood smoothly-until recently, when odd sensations and dreams have begun to unsettle her while home alone with her baby. When she starts to query the house’s background, she is provided the journal of Frances Barnett, who lived in the house 125 years earlier. Abby discovers the diary troubling, and studies the Barnett family’s background. The more Abby learns, the greater she wonders about a negative-possibly supernatural-influence in her home. She becomes confident that when she sleeps, she leaves her child vulnerable-and then vows not to sleep until she can determine the cause of her eerie experiences.

Frances Barnett may not be the only new mother to lose her mind within this home. And like Frances, Abby discovers that by attempting to discover another’s secrets, she dangers awakening a few of her own.