The Hawthorne Inheritance
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Author Nathaniel Hawthorne's sister Louisa drowns in 1852. But was it really an accident?
In 1830, Nathaniel Hawthorne's cousin John Stephens Dike flees Massachusetts and his abusive stepmother Priscilla and settles in Ohio, where he expands his uncle's successful Grocery Emporium and marries his beloved Margaretta. Haunted only by occasional debilitating headaches, he considers his painful past to be safely behind him until in 1883 an unexpected inheritance from his cousin Elizabeth Hawthor...






















