Don't Miss the debut of The House on Foster Hill by Jaime Jo Wright...Scary Good!

(Thank you NetGalley and the Publisher for allowing me to read and review this book)

The House on Foster Hill by Jaime Jo Wright is a very well written story of suspense which weaves together different generations of women through terror in one large old house.  The house itself is not haunted by otherworldly spirits, but by the secret evil of men who have lived there, which can be more dangerous and deadly than haunted spirits!

The story opens in Oakwood, Wisconsin 1906 with Ivy Thorpe accompanying her father, the town physician and medical examiner, to an ancient oak tree which now held the lifeless body of a young woman inside the hollow of its huge trunk. In the background loomed the abandoned Foster Hill House. The Foster family had suddenly left the huge house at the end of the Civil war.  As Ivy and her father examine the body it is obvious the unknown woman had been restrained in the past and her death is due to strangulation. She has bruising all over her body and the most shocking discovery … she had given birth within a couple of weeks of her death. Where did she come from?  But the body of the young woman is not the only shock Ivy receives on that cold and icy morning.

As the story progresses we meet Kaine Prescott in present day driving to Oakwood, Wisconsin looking to start a new life in a historic old home and after a few renovations maybe open a B&B. Her sister Leah had encouraged her to leave San Diego and the grief she could not shake since Danny’s death two years ago. But grief was not the only trouble Kaine was running from, she had a stalker who was making her life miserable with fear. She has lost her faith and feels misplaced. Kaine had been a social worker for abused and battered women, she had taught the frightened women to find the courage to leave violent situations, start a new life, and fight for their right to live without fear. When she sees the horrible condition of the house she had purchased through a realtor, having only seen pictures of the place, she is upset and in despair. There is not even a door on the front! Why would a reputable realtor plainly misrepresent the condition of the whole house, only showing her the very best angles and encourage a widow buy such a place?  And why does Kaine want to live in Oakwood of all places you may wonder? 

Her great-great-grandmother Ivy had lived in this town!    A wonderful and suspenseful read !