Althea Bell is still heartbroken by her mom’s tragic, premature death—and suffering from the last, frantic phrases she whispered into small Althea’s hearing: Wait for her. For the honeysuckle lady. She’ll find you, I believe, but if she doesn’t, you find her.

Adrift ever since, Althea is currently fresh out of rehab and time for her family home in Mobile phone, Alabama, determined to reconnect with her estranged, ailing dad. While Althea doesn’t anticipate him, or her politically ambitious sibling, to welcome about Burying the Honeysuckle Girls her with open up arms, she’s not ready for the chilling revelation of the grim, long-buried family members secret. Delicate and eager, Althea escapes with a vintage flame to uncover the truth about her lineage. Drawn deeper into her ancestors’ lives, Althea begins to unearth their troubling history…and the component she’s designed to play in it.

Gripping and visceral, this memorable debut delves straight into the heart of dark family members secrets and into one woman’s emotional journey to save lots of herself from a sinister inheritance.

“Narrator Kate Orsini navigates the transitions between a Southern hill highlight of the 1930s and a modern Southern accent with style and elegance… [Burying the Honeysuckle Girls is] for listeners who all enjoy thrillers and multigenerational family fiction.” —Library Journal