By Kelly Bridgewater
1885.
Adria
Fontaine has been sent to recover goods her father pirated on the Great Lakes
during the war. But when she arrives at Foxglove Manor--a stone house on a
cliff overlooking Lake Superior--Adria senses wickedness hovering over the
property. The mistress of Foxglove is an eccentric and seemingly cruel old
woman who has filled her house with dangerous secrets, ones that may cost Adria
her life.
Present
day.
Kailey
Gibson is a new nurse's aide at a senior home in a renovated old stone manor.
Kidnapped as a child, she has nothing but locked-up memories of secrets and
death, overshadowed by the chilling promise from her abductors that they would
return. When the residents of Foxglove start sharing stories of whispers in the
night, hidden treasure, and a love willing to kill, it becomes clear this home
is far from a haven. She'll have to risk it all to banish the past's demons,
including her own.
My
Thoughts:
On
the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor by Jaime Jo Wright
starts with a hint of a ghost story and then adds in a hunt for Civil War
Buried Treasure. The two timelines, the 1885 and the present day, story fit
nicely together. As each story works to solve the overall mystery, readers are
invited to see each heroine try to solve the mystery of what the buried treasure
and incidents from the past have to do with this Foxglove Manor. I really like
the hunt for the buried treasure. BUT when they find the cipher to help hunt
for the buried treasure in the present day story, it rushes too quickly to the
end. As an avid reader of mysteries, I would have liked to watch Kailey and
Axel actually spend more time trying to solve the mystery. Not dig a little,
then end up at the resolution for the story. I wanted to see more action and
the hunt for the mystery. There is a hint of romance in the past and the
present. I did find the romance in the 1885 a little creepy because of the age
difference. The present romance was a little awkward because the hero and
heroine really did not like each other until near the end of the story.
Overall, On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor by Jaime Jo Wright was a delightful
ghost story with a satisfying ending; however, I wanted more of the details of
showing them the hunt for the buried treasure.
I received a complimentary copy of On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor by Jaime
Jo Wright from Bethany House Publishing, but the opinions stated are all my
own.
My
Rating: 4
out of 5 stars
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