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    The Visitant: A Venetian Ghost Story
    The Visitant: A Venetian Ghost Story
    The Visitant: A Venetian Ghost Story
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Visitant: A Venetian Ghost Story

    Written by Megan Chance

    Narrated by Julia Whelan

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    About this audiobook

    A crumbling palazzo in nineteenth-century Venice holds a buried secret.

    After she nearly ruins her family with a terrible misstep, Elena Spira is sent to Venice to escape disgrace and to atone by caring for the ailing Samuel Farber. But the crumbling and decaying Ca’ Basilio palazzo, where Samuel is ensconced, holds tragic secrets, and little does Elena know how profoundly they will impact her. Soon she begins to sense that she is being watched by something. And when Samuel begins to have hallucinations that make him violent and unpredictable, she can’t deny she’s in mortal danger.

    Then impoverished nobleman Nero Basilio, Samuel’s closest friend and the owner of the palazzo, arrives. Elena finds herself entangled with both men in a world where the past seeps into the present and nothing is as it seems. As Elena struggles to discover the haunting truth before it destroys her, a dark force seems to hold Samuel and the Basilio in thrall—is it madness, or something more sinister?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateSep 22, 2015
    ISBN9781501266973
    The Visitant: A Venetian Ghost Story
    Author

    Megan Chance

    Megan Chance is the critically acclaimed, award-winning author of more than twenty novels, including A Splendid Ruin, Bone River, and An Inconvenient Wife. She and her husband live in the Pacific Northwest, with their two grown daughters nearby. For more information, visit www.meganchance.com.

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    • 5/5
      All I can say is wow! Page Turner until the very end.
    • 5/5
      This was just fantastic. Beautifully written and intricately detailed. The story is familiar and yet surprising, both in the setting and in the characterizations. The story is so dense, yet very compelling. I tore through it in about a day. I love it.
    • 5/5
      When Elena Spira flees from New York to Venice, she is running from scandal and shame in hopes of a successful mission that will redeem herself and bring respect back to her family name. As an assistant to her father, a doctor working in an asylum with epileptics and the insane, Elena let herself be persuaded and seduced by a male patient promising her the world. An unfortunate scenario that ended quite tragically. Her task in Venice is to heal an injured epileptic who had been beaten in a street brawl. But what Elena finds upon meeting her new ward, is not what she suspected and she soon finds herself embroiled in a family that has been steeped in lies, tragedy and vendettas. Her new handsome patient is painfully convalescing in a ruined Venetian Palazzo, vexed with broken bones, bleeding wounds, epileptic seizures and is cursed knowing that when is injuries are healed, he must return to America to marry a cousin he has been betrothed to since childhood. All the while, keeping his epilepsy a secret until the marriage has been sanctioned. Appearances are just a facade within the grand house of falling plaster and dripping ceilings, a once beautiful palace of opulence when Venice was in its prime. Samuel begins to have visions with his seizures, he hears an angel calling to him and starts to sing in Venetian, a language he never learned. Freezing cold air drifts in through the cracks and holes blowing in otherworldly events that begin to unravel a sinister family saga of love and betrayal, coveted secrets, murder and madness, and a tale spun out slowly of a fallen angel reaching out from the grave to tell her tale and seek revenge!Like a finely spun gossamer spider web that stretches out in many directions, Megan Chance weaves an old fashioned Gothic Suspense ghost story that will have the reader turning pages rapidly as the key players enjoy acting out love triangles, multiple twisted plots, family drama, and much shocking derring-do. Pages will fly swiftly into the deep of night as you wonder just what is going on in this masterly told historical novel. Five Star Fantastic!
    • 5/5
      Elena Spira is sent to a decaying palazzo in Venice to take care of an ailing but rich epilepsy patient, Samuel Faber. This banishment is Elena’s punishment and possible redemption after Elena makes a mistake with a patient at her father’s asylum. If she is able to rehabilitate Samuel in time for his wedding, Elena’s favor will be restored and her father will receive his own asylum from Samuel’s father. When Elena arrives, she is not exactly welcomed by the staff, Madame Basilio or her patient. Elena tries her best with Samuel, but it seems as if another force has a hold on him besides epilepsy. As Elena learns more about the fate of the house from Nero Basilio, she begins to believe that a ghost might be responsible for Samuel’s torment.I absolutely love Megan Chance’s blend of historical fiction, the supernatural and mystery. From the very beginning when Elena sets foot into the gloomy Ca’ Basilio the scene is set to be ominous and treacherous, but in the otherwise beautiful city of Venice. The multiple mysteries layered together dragged me in farther, what is Elena running from? Is there really a spirit in Ca’Basilio? What are Samuel and Nero and Madame Basilio hiding from? Each of the characters are masterfully drawn, each with their own tragedy that just made me like them even more. The supernatural aspect was artfully woven in, with hints here and there and a huge surprise as to what the spirit wanted out of all of the madness that it had created. When it was all over with, I felt that it was too soon to leave these characters and I really wanted to know more of their journey, but that is truly my only complaint.This book was received for free in return for an honest review.
    • 4/5
      Have you ever had an idea of what something might be like but then it’s totally different? It was November 1884, and Elena Spires had been traveling for two weeks. When the reader first meets her, she’s in Venice on a gondola. When the gondolier stops before the Ca’ Basillo, she observes, “the three-story palazzo was white stone, and so ruined I thought perhaps the gondolier had got it wrong. No one could possibly live here.” She finds the housekeeper, Giulia, most unwelcoming.Elena had been sent by her father from New York to nurse Samuel Farber back to health after he’d been badly beaten – then to return him to New York where he is betrothed to be married in January. His friend, Nero Basillo, allowed him to stay at the palazzo as long as he needed to recuperate. It doesn’t take Elena long to feel that things are amiss, like she is being watched. She observes the strange waking dreams Samuel has of an angel. Elena believes he is hallucinating until she also begins to see something … but what?It’s a wonderful story but I felt it was just a bit drawn out. Elena is a very appealing character with a bit of naivety and I could feel her frustration as she was trying to tend to Samuel Farber’s needs without an ounce of help from anyone. Even the ‘not so nice’ characters were believable and well-defined. The author uses wonderful imagery of the scenes so that the reader can practically imagine him or herself there. Rating: 4 out of 5.
    • 4/5
      Megan Chance is an intriguing storyteller. As she did with [Bone River], she has incorporated a compelling ghost story in a lovely historical romantic mystery. {The Visitant] is the story of Elena, a young American, sent to Venice in 1884 to nurse a wealthy patient of her father. The setting is a decrepit Venetian mansion, complete with unwelcoming residents, attractive men, and an overall air of mystery. This was a great read - one of those books that youdon't want to put down!