Terrible things
happened at the boys school behind the Fielding Mansion when Lane’s
father was the director. She lived in the mansion and couldn’t wait
to escape her father’s misdeeds and her own trouble. She ran away
and married immediately after high school graduation. Now she’s
living in the Fielding Mansion with her parents with two daughters
trying to heal from a divorce she didn’t want.
Lane is drinking too
much trying to forget and is ignoring the problems of her daughters.
When a girl disappears and then Annalee, Lane’s older daughter,
disappears, the town remembers another girl who disappeared years
ago. Now there’s talk of a serial killer. Lane is frantic to find
Annalee and to protect her younger daughter, Talley.
I found this book
rather slow. The plot was good, but the action was drawn out with
multiple narrators. One of the confusing aspects was having Daryl, a
strange boy who befriends Talley, tell his story in fragments that
are out of the time sequence of the unfolding events.
The background is a
small town where everyone remembers your past and it can seep into
the present. Lane tries to hide from it with too much alcohol until
she has to confront the problems that still exist; some of her own
making.
The descriptions of
the old mansion and the boys school are suitably haunting. This book
is almost written like a gothic or a paranormal. There is romance and
character development, but it’s the plot that drives the story. If
you like a plot that relies on mysteries from this past, you may
enjoy this book.
I received this book
from Dutton for this review.
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