For the first time in twenty years Grace Alban will
be returning to her family home on the shores of Lake Superior. The house has held nothing but bad memories for her since her brothers drowned in the lake and her father died of a broken heart. Now her mother has died and Grace must return to
Alban House with her teen daughter, Amity. Even after all these years,
Alban House is just as she remembered it. As Grace goes through her mother's paperwork she discovers love letters from a man who could only be David Carville. The famous war correspondent who killed himself at the yearly Summer Solstice party in 1956. In those letters, Grace discovers that he wrote a novel before his death that
was never published. Literary experts have been speculating for decades about the existence of such a novel. Finding it would set the literary world on fire, and with the help of the handsome Reverend Matthew Parker, Grace
does find it. And she quickly realizes that it is a thinly veiled account of his first summer at
Alban House. Do these secrets have anything to do with the odd things that have been happening since Grace and Amity have been back? Will the ghosts of
Alban House finally
be put to rest?
The Fate of Mercy Alban was a positively wonderful read. Almost from the beginning, it had that gothic feel
that was similar to
Rebecca or
Jane Eyre. I loved
all of the characters, including Grace and Amity, but I think
Alban House was my favorite character. Just the descriptions of the opulence. The descriptions of the rooms and hidden passages. Even the grand patio out front, it just was so easy to visualize. There is a story within a
story, which really gave us the history of the house. I loved the relationship that was budding between Grace and the good Reverend Parker. He was good for Grace, but the cynic in me was expecting some twist where he was after Grace for her money or something crazy.
I was relieved when that turned out to be the case. However, there
was a lot of twists and turns involving Grace's aunts, Fate, and Mercy, that left me speechless. -
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Bottom Line - The Fate of Mercy Alban was exactly the
kind of gothic novel that I needed this weekend. The story is
intricate, the characters are endearing, and the house is magnificent.
All of the key elements needed for a gothic novel.
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