When hotel exec Madeline Chase gets a distressed phone call
from the caretaker of the only decommissioned hotel in her family’s chain of
boutique B&Bs, she screws up her courage and returns to the scene of her
worst nightmare. After the caretaker suffers a dire fate on Cooper Island,
Madeline calls the cops and her security team for good measure.
Jack Rayner rushes to Madeline’s side and together they try
to solve the caretaker’s murder. Except the more they look into it, the more
the answers seem rooted in the past, and tied to a powerful West Coast family.
Soon Madeline has no choice but to call her secret sister,
but doing so escalates the danger. With a madman in the neighborhood and a
killer on the loose in this island community, the question is will finding the
truth, and all of the truth, cost Madeline and Jack their lives?
I truly enjoyed the twists and turns in this novel. It
reminded me of Jayne’s novels prior to the Arcane story threads in most of her
more recent work. I adore paranormal, but normal can be Out of this World too.
Whatever she writes, it’s always a hit with me.
Maggie Toussaint and Rigel Carson for Muddy Rose Reviews
