Her father is dead and her desperate mother

fantastical creatures

the Bender family's second year in Mexico has taken a grievous turn

The Sword of Truth

and whose are deadly

The Abandoned Heart: A Bliss House Novel Environment Her father is dead andThree women. A cursed house. Generations of lives at stake. The third novel in the acclaimed Bliss House series reveals the secret that started it all. There is no bliss to be found in Bliss House. In Old Gate, Virginia, stands a grand house built by Randolph Bliss, a charming New York carpetbagger who, in 1878, shook off dire warnings to build his home elsewhere. For the ground beneath Bliss House is tainted with the kind of tragedy that curses