Five years after the
trip to Scotland that changed her life, Lou is back in the misty, magical
country. But this time, she’s not on vacation.
When Brian, her old Highland fling, turns up at the scene of some depressing
family business, tension mounts between the former lovers. But dealing with
Brian is only part of the problem; something wicked is stirring in Scotland.
Lou must use all her strength to handle the increasingly desperate situation,
but will she be strong enough to battle both a vengeful ghost and her heart?
Lou may have thought that she was finished with the witch Isobel Key, but some
secrets can’t stay buried forever.
No one could have
guessed that the old house was haunted. The unexpected drafts, the doors left
inexplicably open, the missing silver candlesticks from the den; these were all
easily explained away. The wind had always been sharp in St. Andrews, sharp enough
to trick unlatched doors into swaying in the breeze, and as for the silver,
well, it was likely that someone along the generations had simply misplaced
them, that was all.
Families came and went, but the house guarded its
secrets. The University grew in prestige, but still the ghost lingered,
unsatisfied. It did not matter how beautiful the town of St. Andrews was, nor
did it matter that the past had been beautifully preserved in many spots around
the town; the truth of the murders of 1667 had been ignored, and the restless
spirit waited, knowing nothing but a desire for revenge.
As the old house passed from one owner to the next, it
fell into the hands of a particular family, and it was one man, a historian,
who drew the ghost’s notice. Nothing of note happened right away, and the old
man, for all his knowledge, somehow ignored the telling signs that there was a
malignant spirit sharing his roof.
But no ghost can remain buried forever.
The Secret of Isobel Key (Isobel Key #1)
Lou is in the middle of a quarter-life crisis. Fresh out of college, she’s unemployed and unsure of herself. But when she gets the chance to escape to Scotland with her best friend, it could be the answer to her quest for self-discovery. The trip is not at all what she expected, especially when her tour guide turns out to be the dreamy historian Brian, and together they embark on a hunt for information about Isobel Key, a woman accused of witchcraft in the seventeenth century.
They set out to learn the truth of the condemned witch, but Lou isn’t prepared for the knowledge that awaits her. She must face her own demons if she has any hope of righting the wrongs of the past.
Flashing between seventeenth century Scotland and a contemporary romance, THE SECRET OF ISOBEL KEY is a mystery that will please readers of all ages.
Enter to win One mounted black and white print of Claire Heminsley’s artwork, “A Snippet of St. Andrews” (INTL)
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Jen McConnel first
began writing poetry as a child. A Michigander by birth, she now lives and
writes in the beautiful state of North Carolina. A
graduate of Western Michigan University, she also holds a MS in Library Science
from Clarion University of Pennsylvania.
When
she isn't crafting worlds of fiction, she teaches college writing composition
and yoga. Once upon a time, she was a middle school teacher, a librarian, and a
bookseller, but those are stories for another time. Her debut NA novel, THE SECRET OF ISOBEL KEY, is out now from Bloomsbury Spark. She
also writes YA and nonfiction. Visit http://www.jenmcconnel.com
to learn more.
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