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Christa Carmen – Beneath the Poet’s House

Local Rhode Island author Christa Carmen is coming to Charter Books! Christa Carmen is the author of BENEATH THE POET’S HOUSE, where the secrets of the past and present converge in a novel of gripping psychological suspense.

Unmoored by her husband’s death and suffering from writer’s block, novelist Saoirse White moves to Providence, and into the historic home of Sarah Helen Whitman, the nineteenth-century poet and spiritualist once courted by Edgar Allan Poe. Saoirse’s certain she’ll find inspiration in the quiet rooms, as well as in the tucked-away rose garden and forgotten cemetery at the back of the property.

Saoirse is immediately welcomed by an effusive trio of transcendentalists obsessed with Whitman, the house, and Whitman’s mystic beliefs. Saoirse, emerging from grief and loneliness, welcomes the idea of new friends taking her mind off the past—even as they hope to summon it. When she meets Emmit Powell, a charismatic and charming prize-winning author, Saoirse thinks she’s finally turned a corner.

Emboldened by new romance, Saoirse begins to write again and, through her writing, rediscover herself. But as old fears return, she finds that nothing about her new life is what it seems—and a secret she’s tried so hard to bury may not be the only thing that comes back to haunt her.

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Date:
December 11
Time:
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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Website:
https://charterbookstore.com/event/2024-12-11/christa-carmen-beneath-poets-house

Venue

Charter Books
8 Broadway St.
Newport, RI United States
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