Flora, Kat and Lauren are three sisters with three mothers. Charles Finch, the girls’ father, is a famous artist who had overlapping relationships that produced the daughters. For years each daughter has been busy with her own life. Now Lauren’s mother, Dixie, is dead and Charles has asked them all to come back to Rock Point for an important announcement.
The sisters have not been back to Rock Point since 1999 and the night of the eclipse. Things happened that night that they’re all desperate to forget most of all Lauren the youngest and the most disturbed by the events of that night. Once back, the story starts to come out and nothing anyone can do will stop it.
This is a wonderfully atmospheric novel. The old house situated on the rocky coast of Cornwall is forbidding. It adds the perfect touch of menace to the evolving story. I loved the descriptions of the coast. It made the atmosphere perfect.
Flora, Kate, and Lauren are good heroines. Despite having three different mothers, the sisters have managed to bond. Lauren has the most trouble returning to the house remembering that her older sisters seemed fierce and somewhat threatening when she was a child.
The mystery is revealed in tantalizing glimpses throughout the novel. It keeps you reading to find out what happened so long ago. If you enjoy romance and mystery with a Gothic flair, you’ll enjoy this book.
I received this book from Penguin Random House for this review.
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