On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor

 

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Foxglove Manor would twist its way into your soul until one day it owned you, and it called to you, and it didn't cease haunting you until you came back.

In 1885, Adria Fontaine has been sent away from her home to recover goods her malevolent father pirated on the Great Lakes during the Civil War.  Hoping to find freedom away from her father, Adria arrives at Foxglove Manor - a stone house on a cliff overlooking Lake Superior - but senses only 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.

Centuries later, Kailey Gibson takes on a position as a nurse's aide at a senior home in a renovated old stone manor. Abducted as a child, she has nothing but locked-up memories of secrets and death, overshadowed by the chilling threat from her kidnappers that they may 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 heaven.

As the sinister mysteries of Foxglove Manor haunt two women separated by time, they will have to risk it all to banish the past's demons - including their own.

Review

It took me a couple chapters to sink my teeth into this meaty novel, but once I did, I was carried along a fantastical journey revolving around ghost stories, tales of hidden treasure, and two heroines battling the demons of their past. Though separated by centuries, both Adria and Kailey end up searching for the same thing: hidden treasure.  For Adria, she is faced with immense shame and heartache over a tragic decision, and feels doing her father's evil doing will be the only way to redeem herself. She begins a search for missing gold at Foxglove Manor, but is rebuffed at every turn.  No one seems to know anything...or is doing a very good job of hiding the truth.  

Kailey has determined once and for all to find out the mystery behind her childhood kidnapping and returns to the place that started it all. Through hidden messages and whispered secrets, she begins to realize there is more than meets the eye at Foxglove Manor. And the threats are still all too real.

On the Cliffs of Foxglove Manor is another mysterious split-time novel by the wonderful Jaime Jo Wright. I must admit that the ending too me by surprise!  I did NOT see that one coming!  I love the twist, but most of all, I love how even while the story starts in darkness, the author doesn't shy away from shining the light of faith through it all. Faith is the undercurrent across the pages, bringing richness and depth to the story, and leaving a lasting impression upon the reader.

Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc.