After a devastating
loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior,
to reset. Checking into a quaint boardinghouse for the summer, she hopes
to put her life into perspective. In her fellow lodgers, she finds a
friendly company of strangers: the frail Alice, cared for by a married
couple with a heartbreaking story of their own; LuAnn, the eccentric and
lovable owner of the inn; and Dominic, an unsettlingly handsome man
inked from head to toe in mesmerizing tattoos.
But in this
inviting refuge, where a century of souls has passed, a mystery begins
to swirl. Alice knows things about Brynn, about all of them, that she
shouldn’t. Bad dreams and night whispers lure Brynn to a shuttered room
at the end of the hall, a room still heavy with a recent death. And now
she’s become irresistibly drawn to Dominic—even in the shadow of rumors
that wherever he goes, suspicious death follows.
In this chilling
season of love, transformation, and fear, something is calling for
Brynn. To settle her past, she may have no choice but to answer.
“A century of souls inhabiting a place will leave an imprint that lingers long after they’re gone, and it lingered here. Not in a bad way. It felt well lived in.”
I was wanting to read a creepy ghost story for Halloween, and this one sounded like it would be creepy, and from the cover, it looked like it would be creepy. However, this was not that kind of ghost story. Normally that would be disappointing. I didn't get what I was wanting, but in this case I ended up being ok with it. I wasn't expecting the many different emotions this book had me feeling. It was a bittersweet read that included a lot of tragedy. I don't always like those kind of books, but this one left me with a lot of feelings to think about. I figured out what was going on somewhere in the middle of reading the book, but that was ok. I very much enjoyed this romantic, bittersweet ghost story.
I do think that the title and cover misrepresent the type of book this is. Or, maybe it's the two combined that do that. I think if the cover was changed to something more fitting the kind of book it is, then the title would work ok. I actually like the title because it doesn't exactly mean what you think it means. That's all I'm going to say about that though.
I'm interested in reading more books by this author. She seems to write nothing but books set on Lake Superior that have ghosts in them. Apparently one of them—Daughter's of the Lake— is loosely related to this one, as in they share one character in common.
“Everyone is haunted by something. A road not taken. A hurt, carried deep inside. Harsh words that echo long after the sting of them is carried away on the wind.”
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