When Grace's husband Adam inherits a little cottage from his
grandparents in the small village of Roseby, an isolated
North Yorkshire village, they gather up their new baby,
Millie, and leave the fast paced city of London behind.
Thinking it may be a great place to raise their daughter,
they're both excited to see where this new phase of life
will lead them. However, a week after moving into the
cottage, Adam and Grace go on an errand, one from which Adam
never returns. Grace mysteriously turns up in her carriage
at the front door of the cottage but Adam is nowhere to be
found.
After an exhaustive search that leads to no discovery of
Adam, Grace and Millie return to France with her parents.
They remain there for a year until Grace decides that she
must get on with her life and wants to go back to the
cottage. This is, after all, Millie's inheritance and she
feels that she at least owes it to her daughter to take care
of that part of things.
Not having decided whether she wants to live there or not,
she gathers up Millie and the two of them return to what may
just be home now. However, it only takes a very short while
to discover that things aren't as they may seem in this
little village. The cottage makes strange noises at night
and the huge grandfather clock in the hallway seems to start
and stop of its own free will.
After spending just a couple of nights there, Grace is
leaning toward simply getting things in order and renting
out the cottage rather than live in it. When the realtor
visits to go over things with her, he suggests that she do
some renovations in order to rent it more easily. This is
the suggestion that leads her to get acquainted with Ben, a
man who looks disturbingly familiar to her, but whom she
can't possibly have ever met. He offers to do the work on
the cottage for her so she decides to tough it out until
those are completed.
An additional odd cast of characters begin to make their way
into Grace's life along with an offer to buy the cottage
from her. When Grace's sister joins her for the holidays,
she finds that there are a lot of ghost stories and ghostly
locations in this small village. While interesting to her
journalist sister, it's frightening to Grace.
In her quest to find out what happened to her husband, Grace
discovers that Adam had a few secrets of his own. Could
these secrets have led to his disappearance? Did he truly
abandon her and Millie like everyone thinks? Grace can't
bring herself to belief that the Adam she loved would ever
have done something like that to her and their daughter. But
as she digs deeper, the answers may also put her in danger.
BENEATH THE SHADOWS is the debut novel of writer Sara Foster
and I, personally, hope there will be many more. This book
has everything! A woman in peril, a vanished husband, and a
rather gothic atmosphere along with a well-rounded group of
characters that you simply don't know whether to trust or
fear are all here. Take my advice and read this one with all
the lights on!
In this thrilling gothic suspense debut by Sara
Foster in the tradition of Rosamund Lupton and Sophie
Hannah, a young mother searches Yorkshire's windswept moors
for the truth behind her husband's mysterious disappearance.
THE ANSWERS ARE HIDING BENEATH THE SHADOWS
When Grace’s husband, Adam, inherits an isolated North
Yorkshire cottage, they leave the bustle of London
behind to try a new life. A week later, Adam vanishes
without a trace, leaving their baby daughter, Millie, in her
stroller on the doorstep. The following year, Grace returns
to the tiny village on the untamed heath. Everyone—the
police, her parents, even her best friend and younger
sister—is convinced that Adam left her. But Grace, unable to
let go of her memories of their love and life together,
cannot accept this explanation. She is desperate for
answers, but the slumbering, deeply superstitious hamlet is
unwilling to give up its secrets. As Grace hunts through
forgotten corners of the cottage searching for clues, and
digs deeper into the lives of the locals, strange dreams
begin to haunt her. Are the villagers hiding something, or
is she becoming increasingly paranoid? Only as snowfall
threatens to cut her and Millie off from the rest of the
world does Grace make a terrible discovery. She has been
looking in the wrong place for answers all along, and she
and her daughter will be in terrible danger if she cannot
get them away in time.
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