Burying the Honeysuckle Girls Audiobook (Free)

Althea Bell is still heartbroken by her mother’s tragic, premature death—and tormented by the final, frantic phrases she whispered into adolescent Althea’s hearing: Await her. For the honeysuckle lady. She’ll discover you, I think, but if she doesn’t, you discover her.

Adrift since, Althea is currently fresh out of rehab and returning to her family home in Mobile, Alabama, determined to reconnect with her estranged, ailing father. While Althea doesn’t anticipate him, or her politically ambitious sibling, to welcome about Burying the Honeysuckle Ladies her with open arms, she’s not really ready for the chilling revelation of a grim, long-buried family members secret. Fragile and desperate, Althea escapes with an old flame to discover the reality about her lineage. Drawn deeper into her ancestors’ lives, Althea begins to unearth their disturbing history…and the part she’s meant to play in it.

Gripping and visceral, this unforgettable debut delves directly into the heart of dark family members secrets and into one female’s emotional trip to save lots of herself from a sinister inheritance.

“Narrator Kate Orsini navigates the transitions between a Southern hill accent from the 1930s and a modern Southern accent with style and sophistication… [Burying the Honeysuckle Young ladies is] for listeners who enjoy thrillers and multigenerational family fiction.” —Collection Journal