The Two Deaths of Lilian Carmichael

The Two Deaths of Lilian Carmichael

Author: Paulette Kennedy Listening Length: 8h 19m
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A young woman, perceived dead, plots to reinvent herself in a gripping historical gothic about secrets, superstition, and murder by the bestselling author of The Devil and Mrs. Davenport. South Carolina, 1853. Lillian Carmichael, privileged daughter of a disgraced Charleston family, is due to be hanged for the murder o...

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I stay near the banks of the Cooper, and follow it down to Charleston’s old quarter, my ridiculous pink gown useless against the cold, its overlong hem snagging on cobblestones and tripping me without the layers of stiff crinolines I’ve always worn beneath it.

The bells of the Huguenot church ring out twice.

Anyone about at this hour will think I’ve just come from a ball, scandalously unchaperoned.