Author: wendywebb

“Simultaneously melancholy and sweet at its core” (Kirkus Reviews): When Kate travels to her parents’ home on Lake Superior, she discovers a woman’s body — and is drawn into a web of decades-old secrets. “Well-delineated characters and a suspenseful plot make this a winner” (Publishers Weekly).

Recently widowed and rendered penniless by her Ponzi-scheming husband, Julia Bishop is eager to start anew. So when a stranger appears on her doorstep with a job offer, she finds herself accepting the mysterious yet unique position: caretaker to his mother, Amaris Sinclair, the famous and rather eccentric horror novelist whom Julia has always admired . . . and who the world believes is dead. When … When she arrives at the Sinclairs’ enormous estate on Lake Superior, Julia begins to suspect that there may be sinister undercurrents to her “too-good-to-be-true” position. As Julia delves into the reasons of why…