Here is my latest blog for Bethany House Books: The House on Foster Hill.
The cover of this book features a decrepit curving staircase and a dusty piano which perfectly captures the setting for Foster Hill House, a creepy ancestral home Kaine Prescott buys sight unseen while running from her stalker in California.
Kaine feels her husband had been murdered, except the cops didn't believe her, even after a series of stalking teases from the killer. Kaine buys the house in Wisconsin because she wants to escape from her terror in California. She gets to Wisconsin to find the house a ramshackle mess and before long she feels like she's being stalked again.
Wisconsin was the perfect setting for this, where the atmosphere is cold and grim but the characters are warm and helpful. Kaine soon finds help from a handsome resident but the story doesn't get bogged down in a forced romance, it's written in gracefully and naturally.
There's a also a second half to the story in the early 1900's that plays out back and forth between chapters. Ivy, Kaine's ancestor, is embroiled in a murder mystery involving Foster Hill House and a dead woman found in a hollowed out tree. You'll see the mystery unraveling throughout generations in an easy to follow manner, making it a deliciously good mystery read.
I was impressed that this was the author's debut novel, it was as good as anybody with several books under their belt and I expect there to be more after this.
Great weekend read, especially now in the dead of a cold, gray winter!
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