Here was this strong, brave, broken hero that was clearly a MAN who had been to war and seen things that haunted him. She was very young and innocent and I think that’s what didn’t work for me. I didn’t feel how much he desired Jillian nor did I feel like she was terribly into him. Sure Drew was sexy, masculine, and appealing but he lacked the same torment and mysteriousness that some of her other leading men have had. The fact that this novel is set on the stormy English coast, in a town known for smuggling, with a haunted woods….I just expected St James to capitalized on the atmosphere more in this novel than she did. I think I was expecting a little more romance and a lot more ghosts. Not the best by her but still enjoyable enough for me to read it in a matter of days. I don’t know that I liked it as much as The Haunting of Maddy Clare, but it was good. It sounded so gothically wonderful that I was thrilled to pick it up from my library and get lost in it. I had high expectations for this book since I had seen it recommended so many times on my Goodreads. She suspects someone will do anything to hide the truth and begins to discover secrets that lie deep within Rothewell… and at the very heart of who she is ( summary from Goodreads). The arrival of handsome Scotland Yard inspector Drew Merriken leaves Jillian with more questions than answers – and with the added complication of a powerful mutual attraction. If Toby discovered something sinister during his investigations, was his death no accident? Almost immediately, unsettling incidents – a book left in a cold stove, a gate swinging open on its own – escalate into terrifying events that convince Jillian an angry spirit is trying to enter the house and is haunting the woods around Blood Moon Bay. This same book kept coming up when I read Anne Lee Huber’s Gothic Myth’s series, again I looked at it and thought ‘I need to read this one’ but again forgot about it until I discovered this author’s other works.Īfter her uncle Toby, a renowned ghost hunter, is killed in a fall off a cliff, Oxford student Jillian Leigh must drive to the seaside village of Rothewell to pack up his belongings. So I put it in my TBR list and kind of forgot about it. This book came up on my Goodreads recommendations for fans of Victoria Holt. I love gothic novels, specifically Victoria Holt. This book was actually on my radar well before I started reading her works. Some are better than others naturally but all have an interesting plot angles and intriguing mysteries, ghosts, and romances. I’ve shamelessly read them all in the matter of days. I ordered all of her books from my library and haven’t looked back. I started off with The Broken Girls (her latest novel out in March) and I was completely hooked on her writing style and plots. Many of you have noticed that I recently became completely obsessed with Simone St James’s novels.
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