The Haunting of Brynn Wilder: A Novel

by Wendy Webb

Overview

From the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author of Daughters of the Lake comes an enthralling spellbinder of love, death, and a woman on the edge.

After a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. Checking into a quaint boardinghouse for the summer, she hopes to put her life into perspective. In her fellow lodgers, she finds a friendly company of strangers: the frail Alice, cared for by a married couple with a heartbreaking story of their own; LuAnn, the eccentric and lovable owner of the inn; and Dominic, an unsettlingly handsome man inked from head to toe in mesmerizing tattoos.

But in this inviting refuge, where a century of souls has passed, a mystery begins to swirl. Alice knows things about Brynn, about all of them, that she shouldn’t. Bad dreams and night whispers lure Brynn to a shuttered room at the end of the hall, a room still heavy with a recent death. And now she’s become irresistibly drawn to Dominic—even in the shadow of rumors that wherever he goes, suspicious death follows.

In this chilling season of love, transformation, and fear, something is calling for Brynn. To settle her past, she may have no choice but to answer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781542020121
Publisher:	Amazon Publishing
Publication date:	11/01/2020
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	107,828
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Wendy Webb is the #1 Amazon Charts bestselling, multiple-award-winning author of five novels of gothic suspense, including Daughters of the Lake, The Vanishing, The Fate of Mercy Alban, The Tale of Halcyon Crane, and The End of Temperance Dare, which has been optioned for both TV and film. Her books are sold worldwide and have been translated into seven languages. Dubbed Queen of the Northern Gothic by reviewers, Wendy sets her stories on the windswept, rocky shores of the Great Lakes. Wendy lives with a good dog in Minneapolis, where she is at work on her next novel. For more information visit http://wendykwebb.com.

Editorial Reviews

08/24/2020

In this touching paranormal romantic thriller, college professor Brynn Wilder, who has suffered her mother’s death and other misfortunes while on sabbatical, readily accepts the invitation of her friend Kate Granger, the protagonist of Webb’s Daughters of the Lake, to join Kate in Wharton, a tourist town on the shore of Lake Superior, for the summer. In Wharton, she stays at a historic boardinghouse that’s rumored to be haunted. Brynn’s nights are wracked with strange, lucid dreams, in which a ghost, an old woman in a nightdress, beckons her to visit a room where a woman’s dead body lies. Meanwhile, she meets the handsome Dominic James. Wary of starting a relationship, and leery after hearing the local gossip about two women who have died and were supposedly last seen with Dominic, Brynn is nonetheless drawn to him. She’s soon having more vivid dreams, not only of the old woman but of her and Dominic in another place and time. The action builds to a satisfying and uplifting ending, in which the ghost’s surprising identity is revealed. Webb consistently entertains. Agent: Jennifer Weltz, Jean Naggar Literary. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

2020-09-02
A woman takes the summer to heal in a small Minnesota town and discovers friendship, phantoms, and love.

Brynn Wilder has had a rough year. She broke up with her long-term partner, her beloved dog died, and she took a sabbatical from her job at the university to care for her dying mother. When a friend invites her to spend the summer in a small town on the shores of Lake Superior, it’s just what she needs. She finds herself sharing the small boardinghouse with a sociable older gay couple, a handsome and mysterious tattooed man, and something that might be the ghost of a woman who died in the house over the winter. Between the convivial small town, the chance at romance, and the unsettling presence that seems to be interested in her, Brynn’s going to have a summer to remember. Setting her new novel in the same town as Daughters of the Lake (2018), Webb has concocted another tale of mystery, and, since Brynn is friends with Kate, the heroine of the earlier novel, there are plenty of familiar faces. The town of Wharton leaps off the page, full of kooky but kind townies who all befriend Brynn. Though the tone can be odd, slipping among a heartwarming tale of a woman finding herself, a whirlwind romance with hints of danger, and a haunting ghost story, all the characters are so likable and the mystery genuinely mystifying enough that the book somehow remains endearing and greatly readable.

An uneven but heartfelt tale that is both warm and poignant.

Kirkus Reviews

The action builds to a satisfying and uplifting ending…Webb consistently entertains.” —Publishers Weekly

“Endearing and greatly readable…[a] tale that is both warm and poignant.”—Kirkus Reviews

“Webb’s chilling tale of a woman running from a tragic loss will put a spell on you.” —E! Online

“Prepare to lose yourself in Wendy Webb’s lusciously written The Haunting of Brynn Wilder.” —POPSUGAR

“Enchanting.” —The Nerd Daily

“Wendy Webb weaves a searing gothic tale with elements of horror, mystery, and romance…It is incredibly absorbing and atmospheric.” —Bookreporter

“Wendy Webb is a rising voice in thrillers, and we can’t wait to see what she does next.” —CrimeReads

“Suspenseful and engrossing, The Haunting of Brynn Wilder is a ghost story, a love story, and a chilling fireside tale in one. Readers will be drawn in from the first page, and they won’t want to stop until they read the eerie conclusion, probably in the wee hours of the night.” —Simone St. James, New York Times bestselling author of The Sun Down Motel

“Evocative and beautifully haunting, Wendy Webb’s latest transports you to a location you’ll soon want to call home, in a story you won’t want to put down. It’s no exaggeration to call this the standout gothic novel of the year.” —Darcy Coates, USA Today bestselling author of The Haunting of Ashburn House

“A haunting tale of grief and loss that is beautifully layered with new beginnings and woven into a gothic ghost story both bone-chilling and heartwarming.” —Melissa Payne, author of The Secrets of Lost Stones

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