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SYNOPSIS: In the summer of 1925, the winds of change are particularly chilling for a young woman whose life has suddenly become unbalanced.
Devastated by her mother’s death and a cruel, broken engagement, Sadie Halloran learns that her great-aunt Marguerite, a renowned artist now in the throes of dementia, needs a live-in companion. Grasping at newfound purpose, Sadie leaves her desolate Kansas City boardinghouse for Blackberry Grange, Marguerite’s once-grand mansion sitting precariously atop an Arkansas bluff. Though Marguerite is a fading shell of the vibrant woman Sadie remembers, Marguerite is feverishly compelled to paint eerie, hallucinatory portraits of old lovers―some cherished, some regretted, and some beastly. All of them haunting.
With each passing night, time itself seems to shift with the shadows at Blackberry Grange. As truth and delusion begin to blur, Sadie must uncover the secrets that hold Marguerite captive to her past before reality―and Marguerite’s life―slips away entirely.
MY REVIEW
Paulette Kennedy, the Author of “The Artist of Blackberry Grange” has written a powerful, edgy, chilling thriller. The varied Genres are: Occult, Horror, Women’s Historical Fiction, Gothic, Mystery, Paranormal, Suspense, and Ghost Stories. The timeline for this story is set in 1925. The setting is in a large mansion in Arkansas. Paulette Kennedy vividly describes eerie and frightening scenes and quirky, unbalanced, and dramatic characters. One of the female protagonists, Sadie Halloran becomes a companion for her elderly eccentric great-aunt Marguerite. She does receive warnings from some people in the mansion, that it is dangerous and haunted by ghosts. After some tragic upsets in her life, Sadie feels she has no choice, and she has to stay and help the elderly aunt.
Marguerite seems to be exhibiting signs of dementia, but is obsessed with painting. Sadie feels the paintings are communicating and speaking to her. Some characters from the paintings seem to be directly seeking Sadie out. Sadie senses that the “spirits” from the ghost-like characters are looking for something. Sadie also discovers that there were some unfortunate accidents before she arrived at the mansion. .How can Sadie stop the haunted danger that she senses is headed her way? It was difficult for me to put this book down. I highly recommend this intense novel with twists and turns, and secrets.
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