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[The house on Foster Hill] by Jamie Jo Wright
4.5★
Kaine Prescott is no stranger to death. When her husband died two years ago, her pleas for further investigation into his suspicious death fell on deaf ears. In desperate need of a fresh start, Kaine purchases an old house sight unseen in her grandfather's Wisconsin hometown. But one look at the eerie, abandoned house immediately leaves her questioning her rash decision. And when the house's dark history comes back with a vengeance, Kaine is forced to face the terrifying realization she has nowhere left to hide.
A century earlier, the house on Foster Hill holds nothing but painful memories for Ivy Thorpe. When an unidentified woman is found dead on the property, Ivy is compelled to discover her identity. Ivy's search leads her into dangerous waters and, even as she works together with a man from her past, can she unravel the mystery before any other lives--including her own--are lost?It's a creepy story about a creepy house with a less than desirable history. Kaine buys the house sight unseen...after all it was her grandfather's. Maybe she should have asked why he nor any other member of the family never set foot in it. I believe one of the reasons I liked the book so much was that it was not only scary but it also had elements of reality attached to the present and the past parts of the story. I did think that Kaine was rather blindly foolish in her refusal to leave the house and in believing she could confront the evil thing that shared her rooms. If you like ghost stories...this is diffidently for you.
