Wendy's first novel, THE TALE OF HALCYON CRANE (2010, Holt) was an IndieNext Pick, a Great Lakes Great Reads Pick and a Midwest Connections Pick. A packet of old love letters and a lost manuscript by a famous novelist lead Grace to the haunted truth about what really happened that day. It's the story of Grace Alban, who returns home after 20 years when her mother dies under questionable circumstances on the very day she (the mother) planned to reveal the truth about a tragedy that occurred during a party at Alban House long ago. THE FATE OF MERCY ALBAN (2013, Hyperion) is an Indie bestseller. When she travels to the novelist's remote estate, she begins to suspect her too-good-to-be-true job offer is exactly that. THE VANISHING (2014, Hyperion) is the story of Julia Bishop, who takes a job as a companion for a famous novelist, who the entire world thinks is dead. When Eleanor Harper takes the helm as its new director and her first batch of visiting artists arrives, she begins to suspect this isn't going to be the restful retreat she thought it might be. THE END OF TEMPERANCE DARE (2017, Lake Union) is set in a former tuberculosis sanatorium on Lake Superior, now a renowned retreat for artists and writers.
WENDY WEBB's novels are mysteries about long-buried family secrets, set in big, old haunted houses on the Great Lakes. To settle her past, she may have no choice but to answer. In this chilling season of love, transformation, and fear, something is calling for Brynn. And now she’s become irresistibly drawn to Dominic-even in the shadow of rumors that wherever he goes, suspicious death follows. Bad dreams and night whispers lure Brynn to a shuttered room at the end of the hall, a room still heavy with a recent death. Alice knows things about Brynn, about all of them, that she shouldn’t. In her fellow lodgers, she finds a friendly company of strangers: the frail Alice, cared for by a married couple with a heartbreaking story of their own LuAnn, the eccentric and lovable owner of the inn and Dominic, an unsettlingly handsome man inked from head to toe in mesmerizing tattoos.īut in this inviting refuge, where a century of souls has passed, a mystery begins to swirl. Checking into a quaint boardinghouse for the summer, she hopes to put her life into perspective. After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset.
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