The Haunting of Maddy Clare

A woman of limited means and even less experience must confront a vengeful spirit in this haunting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Girls and The Sun Down Motel. 1920s England. Sarah Pipers lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist an obsessed ghost hunter. Alistair Gellisrich, handsome, and scarred by World War Ihas been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed suicide. Maddy hated men in life, and she will not speak to them in death. But Sarah is unprepared to confront an angry ghostreal or imaginedon her own. Shes even less prepared for the arrival of Alistairs associate, rough, unsettling Matthew Ryder, also a veteran of the trenches, whose scars go deeper than Sarah can reach. Soon, Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle. For Maddys ghost is no hoaxshes real, shes angry, and she has powers that defy all reason. Now, Sarah and Matthew must discover who Maddy was, where she came from, and what is driving her desire for vengeancebefore she destroys them all....