✍ Scribed by Laura K. Curtis
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
What is haunting young Liza Prescott?
Molly Allworth has been in service since leaving college when her mother died. Still, her situation is getting desperate and when the agency offers her a position that sounds too good to be true, she cannot resist.
Soon she finds herself in a remote house in Maine, caring for a little girl who swore she saw her mother’s ghost…before she stopped speaking entirely. Nathaniel Prescott, the child’s father, thinks any belief in the supernatural is absurdly credulous. Molly’s history and heritage, however, have given her a wider view.
There’s a significant bonus for Molly if she lasts the year. But as winter closes in and mysterious, often creepy events begin to occur, even her growing affection for Nathaniel and Liza may not be enough to make her stay. **
An unnerving ghost story that's grounded by persuasive characters and stirring melodrama.
-- Kirkus Reviews
This novel is highly suspenseful, with rich atmosphere and real emotion on every page. I highly recommend! --Nancy Bilyeau, international bestselling author of The Blue
Sharply plotted, exquisitely written, and sometimes bone-chillingly frightening. Highly recommended. -- Brendan DuBois, award-winning and New York Times bestselling author
A Darker Shade is a haunted house story in the best possible way for horror fans...filled with many secrets and an unfolding family history that is both tragic and horrifying.
-- Penny Watson, award-winning author The setting of Rook's Rest, as is the case with any Gothic worth its salt, is a formidable character in and of itself. The broken family Molly has been appointed to serve draws you in with mystery, madness, grief and unknowable terror. An engaging, compelling, character-driven addition to a classic genre." -- Leanna Renee Hieber, award-winning & bestselling author of the Strangely Beautiful and Spectral City series
A Darker Shade is wildly different from the books I've published in the past. I grew up on a steady diet of Victoria Holt, Phyllis A. Whitney and, of course, Mary Stewart. Classic gothic writers of the 60s and 70s. But peppered in there was a deep love of Stephen King. This book is what I imagine might happen if Mary Stewart settled in to write a novel in the Maine imagined by King. While there is a slight romantic element, this is not a romance by today's standards and is absolutely suited to a YA audience, so long as they're the ghost-loving sort of young adults!
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