![]() ![]() What could go wrong in an old house near Salem, after all? Her sister Catherine was involved in a scandal that sent the family to live in a small hamlet, New Oldbury, in an old country home, Willow Hall. Ten years later it does, but not because of Lydia. Her mother just gives her a warning to keep that part of herself hidden or the family’s world will fall apart. The book begins with nine-year-old Lydia doing something she expects to be punished for. Delicious! Two centuries after the Salem witch trials, there’s still a witch in town, though she doesn’t know it. Part romance, part historical novel, part gothic suspense… and witches. She learns an investor intends to restore Idlewild, and a shocking discovery uncovers secrets that were supposed to stay hidden. The sister’s boyfriend was tried and convicted for the crime, but something just doesn’t seem right to Fiona. ![]() In the present day, Idlewild has gone to ruin when reporter Fiona Sheridan arrives to revisit the events surrounding her older sister’s death 20 years ago, when her body was found outside the boarding school. At Idlewild Hall, a home for wayward girls in 1950s Vermont, four roommates are becoming good friends, bonding over rumors that the place is haunted, until one of them disappears. This book has it all, a spooky, ghostly tale, well-crafted characters and a mystery that will keep you turning the pages. Secrets, lies and deception lurks around every delicious corner in this page-turner you won’t be able to put down. She meets the woman rumored to be the inspiration for the story. She hasn’t had the easiest or happiest of childhoods (who does in a Gothic?) so she accepts an offer to write a tell-all memoir about her mother and the cult classic that defined her life. This atmospheric Southern Gothic is the story of Meg, who is investigating the 40-year-old murder that inspired her mother’s bestselling horror novel. ![]() Kate sets about trying to solve the mystery of who she was and how and why she died, and it leads her into her own past.Īll of these books are suspenseful, thrilling reads with characters who will get inside your heart and haunt you, even when you put down the book. Nobody knows anything about Addie but Kate, who has been dreaming about her for weeks. One of the women, Addie, washes up dead on the beach in front of the house of the other, Kate. It’s the story of two women in two different time periods in the same place, reaching out across the ages to each other. My newest book, Daughters of the Lake, has all of those elements. It’s what I love to write, and what I love to read. A big, crumbling house, family secrets hidden in dark corners, a heroine with a mystery to solve that might just morph into psychological suspense, a hint of romance in the air, twists and turns you don’t see coming … that’s where I live. ![]()
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