The Tale of Halcyon Crane: A Novel

Wendy Webb

Mar 2010 · Blackstone Audio Inc. · Narrated by Cassandra Campbell

About this audiobook

Ghosts don’t exist in our world of today; life is too pragmatic, too consuming, too busy for past lives to linger on longer than their allotted time—or so Halcyon had believed, until she received a letter from a lawyer claiming that her mother, whom she had thought long dead, had actually been living in another part of the country since Halcyon’s early childhood. She had only recently passed away, leaving Halcyon heir to an unexpected fortune and an estate on an isolated island in the middle of the Great Lakes.

Setting out to find some answers, Halcyon travels to her mother’s home. But will she be prepared for the ghastly family history that waits for her there, the visions and revelations that will change everything she thought she knew about the father she lived with and the mother she'd lost long ago?

Ratings and reviews

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The characters were well developed and the narration was perfection. I found myself transported multiple times into the story and felt as if I could physically envision its entirity.

About the author

Wendy Webb is the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling, multiple award-winning author of five novels of gothic suspense, including The End of Temperance Dare, which has been optioned for both television and film. Her books are sold worldwide and have been translated into seven languages. Dubbed Queen of the Northern Gothic by reviewers, she sets her stories on the windswept, rocky shores of the Great Lakes.

Cassandra Campbell is a prolific audiobook narrator with more than 700 titles to her credit. A 2018 inductee in Audible’s inaugural Narrator Hall of Fame, she has won four Audie Awards, has been nominated for a dozen more, and has consistently been an AudioFile Magazine Best Narrator as well as a Publisher’s Weekly Best Narrator of the Year. She has also performed in and directed dozens of plays at theaters across the country.