Amanda (1995) - Kay Hooper Audiobook

Written by Kay Hooper
Read by Jill Ferris
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Washington, DC : Library of Congress, NLS/BPH
Talking Book Publishers, 1998.
Length: 12hrs 3min

A spellbinding tale of contemporary suspense that begins with a mysterious homecoming and ends in a shattering explosion of passion, greed, and murder. And all because a stranger says her name is… Amanda.

Jesse Daulton, multimillionaire patriarch of one of the South’s oldest families, is dying. His fortune and fabled plantation house, Glory, will be shared by Kate, the unmarried daughter he ignores, and his two grandsons, surly Sullivan (Sully) Lattimore, who runs Glory’s legendary stables, and his brother, Reece, who works quietly in the family business

Others have claimed to be Amanda Daulton, but now a beautiful, self-assured woman has stepped out of the shadows of the past, insisting she’s the missing heiress to a multimillion-dollar fortune. One look is all it takes to assure the family patriarch that she’s his beloved granddaughter. But others at the magnificent Southern mansion called Glory are not as easily convinced, others with much to lose from her sudden reappearance. Soon suspicion erupts in a chilling attempt on her life, and after the traumatic ordeal, she begins to have flashes of a nightmarish vision. What, if anything, happened twenty years ago to drive a mother and her nine-year-old daughter away from their privileged life? The struggle to find the elusive answer exposes a frightening trail of secrets—a trail that leads shockingly to the present and to the enigmatic woman who calls herself… Amanda.

Hooper isn’t the smoothest of writers, but she knows how to serve up a latter-day gothic that will hold readers in its brooding grip.