Publisher:
WaterBrook Multnomah
Pages: 336
Source: “I received this book for free from WaterBrook
Multnomah Publishing Group for
this review”
Genre:
Historical, Contemporary, Romance
From Goodreads:
A
house shrouded in time.
A line of
women with a heritage of loss. As a young bride, Susannah Page was rumored to be a Civil War
spy for the North, a traitor to her Virginian roots. Her great-granddaughter
Adelaide, the current matriarch of Holly Oak, doesn’t believe that Susannah’s
ghost haunts the antebellum mansion looking for a pardon, but rather the house
itself bears a grudge toward its tragic past. When Marielle Bishop marries into
the family and is transplanted from the arid west to her husband’s home, it
isn’t long before she is led to believe that the house she just settled into
brings misfortune to the women who live there. With Adelaide’s richly peppered
superstitions and deep family roots at stake, Marielle must sort out the truth
about Susannah Page and Holly Oak— and make peace with the sacrifices she has
made for love.
My Thoughts:
I loved this
book. It has something for
everyone. There is the
contemporary romance between Marielle and Carson. Marielle has moved across the country to in the house that Carson’s first wife
lived in. She is now raising his
two children from that marriage.
In the mix is the grandmother-in-law who is the matriarch of the
house. Most of the people in the
area believe the house is haunted.
Adelaide doesn’t. She
believes the house holds a grudge that affects the women in the family. If Marielle is to survive in this new
environment she must put to rest the ghosts, real or imagined, of this
house. She must discover the
secrets that have kept generations in the dark. I loved that the person who held the key (literally and
figuratively) to those secrets was the one person most considered an
outcast. She was also the one
person that I really admired. She
faced her ghosts head on.
This is a
book that I whole heartedly recommend to anyone who likes romances, the Civil
War and it’s impact on families and a great mystery to tie it all together.
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