In the Lonely Hours by Shannon Morgan

In the Lonely Hours by Shannon Morgan
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4.5 stars

I just finished reading, started it about 5am this morning . This is a new to me author and I definitely want to read her other books. The story explores the dynamics of family drama/trauma with sensitive subjects such as autism, parental cruelty and abuse, and homosexuality wrapped up in a historical fiction ghost story

On a small island in a remote corner of northwest Scotland lies Maundrell castle, owned by its wealthy namesake family for centuries—until now. Edwina Nunn is shocked to learn a relative she never heard of has bequeathed the castle and its land to her. What awaits Edie and her teenage daughter, Neve, is even more startling, for the castle is home to a multitude of ghosts.

Yet there’s a strange beauty in the austere architecture and the eerie, bloody waters of Loch na Scáthanna, the Lake of Shadows. Beguiled by a frightened ghost who gazes longingly out of the castle’s windows, Edie and Neve are drawn to the legends shrouding the island and the mystery of the Maundrell Red—a priceless diamond that disappeared decades before.

Is the gem really cursed, and the cause of the family tragedies that have all occurred on Samhain—Scottish Halloween? As Samhain approaches once more, Edie and Neve race to peel back the dark secrets entwining the living and the dead—a twisted story of bitter cruelty and hidden love—or they will become another Maundrell tragedy trapped in the lonely hours . . .

I highly recommend it to anyone who loves mysteries, thrillers or gothic spooky reads. 

I requested and received an advance reader copy of this book from Kensington and Netgalley. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

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