Night Songs

Night Songs

Author: Alli Dyer Listening Length: 13h 8m

In this haunting family saga, a young woman must delve into her country star mother’s music to break a curse that has plagued the women in her family for generations—before her time runs out. On the morning of Rhea’s eighteenth birthday, she makes a shocking discovery—her mother was the famed singer of some of coun...

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When I turned thirty-two, Hess threw me a birthday party in Nashville.

Lanterns hung from the hulking trees in her backyard and fairy lights twinkled from the bushes like fireflies.

I could see the real thing blinking in the darkness beyond the light and roar of the party, and I had that feeling again, that this was a place of more magic and meaning than others, Hess’s place of peace.

I saw her at the far end of the yard talking to one of Martha’s old protégés, and we briefly met eyes.