The blurb promoting this book read like an old school gothic romance. Since I absolutely loved that style as a teen, I was excited to check out this story. Jasmine is the primary focus of the story. Out of the seeming blue, she loses her home and home business to arson and almost immediately discovers through a returned letter that she has family she never knew about. As any decent gothic story needs, this story has an enormous old house, Moore House, replete with strange noises and weird happenings where Jasmine goes to meet and investigate her new found family. Her arrival is met with tears and hostility from some and strangely attentive care by one person, Rand. Jasmine endures the type of gaslighting you might expect in a gothic novel, all designed to make her think she is losing her mind. In the end, Rand may be her only hope, but he is lying to her too. I enjoyed the sort of over the top melodrama of this gothic throwback set in modern times. It reminded me of growing up although it was a little sexier than what I would have read back then.
Net Galley provided a copy of this book for review:-)
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