The Invited Audiobook By Jennifer McMahon cover art

The Invited

A Novel

 Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for $0.00
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.

The Invited

By: Jennifer McMahon
Narrated by: Amanda Carlin, Justine Eyre
Try for $0.00

$0.00/mo. after 3 months. Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $20.25

Buy for $20.25

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
Switch payment method
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

A chilling ghost story with a twist: The New York Times best-selling author of The Winter People returns to the woods of Vermont to tell the story of a husband and wife who don't simply move into a haunted house - they build one....

In a quest for a simpler life, Helen and Nate have abandoned the comforts of suburbia to take up residence on 44 acres of rural land where they will begin the ultimate, aspirational do-it-yourself project: building the house of their dreams.

When they discover that this beautiful property has a dark and violent past, Helen, a former history teacher, becomes consumed by the local legend of Hattie Breckenridge, a woman who lived and died there a century ago. With her passion for artifacts, Helen finds special materials to incorporate into the house - a beam from an old schoolroom, bricks from a mill, a mantel from a farmhouse - objects that draw her deeper into the story of Hattie and her descendants, three generations of Breckenridge women, each of whom died suspiciously.

As the building project progresses, the house will become a place of menace and unfinished business: a new home, now haunted, that beckons its owners and their neighbors toward unimaginable danger.

©2019 Jennifer McMahon (P)2019 Random House Audio Fiction Genre Fiction Ghosts Horror Literary Fiction Mystery Small Town & Rural Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Haunted Marriage Scary Detective Village

Critic reviews

“Entertaining. . . powerful. . . supplies a plethora of frights that emerge from believable characters trying to navigate normal lives. McMahon again proves that the modern ghost story is more than things that go bump in the night. It hinges on reality, slowly building to a terror that seems real and sometimes personal, as it does in THE INVITED.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

“McMahon blends her historical tale of rural Vermont with some crafty ghost stories and makes it impossible for the reader to turn away.”—Suspense Magazine

“[The] blend of ghost story and modern mystery is flawlessly compelling and evocative. A masterful twist on the haunted-house story.”—Booklist (starred review)
Engaging Plot • Unexpected Twists • Compelling Storyline • Well-developed Characters • Historical Elements
Highly rated for:
All stars
Most relevant  
I enjoyed the book overall but wasn't a fan of the narrator.
it's like she put emphasis in the the wrong spots and ran out of air while speaking.
I enjoyed her actual voice but the way she did the reading it was like nails on a chalk board 😬.
the story was decent I enjoyed the amount of history, facts about animals and witch craft the author put into the book but feel like at times it was repetitive or didn't quite fit right?
I hate saying it sucked, it wasnt to the point where I didn't finish or returned the book it just was t my cup of tea I guess.

enjoyed ish...

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
It took a bit to get used to the narrator as it was my first audiobook but the storyline was great. I was hooked in with the storyline. There were a few parts that felt like it strayed away from the story but I enjoyed the ending and the character arch.
Overall a great listen!

Well narrated and a twist in the ending

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Creepy, unique, and suspenseful---everything a good ghost story should be. I thoroughly enjoyed it from beginning to end.

Ghost Story

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This spooky and beautifully written novel brings a little history into the present. I was easily drawn in from the first page. (I heard about this novel from the Welcome to Night Vale podcast and I’m happy I finally got to listen!)

Intriguing and beautiful

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Ive had this book in my wishlist for sometime now and I decided to purchase it the other day. Im so glad I did. Very enjoyable! It was spooky without being scary. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Great Book

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
good storyline. cool characters. awesome ending. enjoyable listen. I want to comment on the ending but will not because I don't want to be the spoiler...

I liked it

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
Great story but harder to listen to because of the strange warble in the narrator's voice.

Spooky

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The story was a page turner. Great, layered characters. The narrator’s voice was very good.

Story kept you on the edge of your seat

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
I really enjoyed this story! At first, I wasn’t thrilled with the narrator but as the story progressed I came to like her a lot. Hope to hear more from this author.

Great story!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The narrator was a little hard to get used to but the book is excellent. Stick with it, you won’t regret it!

Really good story!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
See more reviews