The Haunting of Emily Grace

Grief has stripped Emily Grace of almost everything: her home, her friends, her career. What remains is one unlikely offer of work from an eccentric millionaire who, with his wife, has been building a mansion on a secluded island ringed by a harsh, unforgiving sea. Then his wife vanishes in mysterious circumstances, and Emily is brought in to finish the house she left behind.

The locals insist the place is cursed. Emily, who believes nothing can frighten her now, ignores them, though the attentions of a handsome man prove harder to dismiss. Then come the accidents and mishaps, whispers drifting through the surrounding forest, footsteps when she is quite alone and a pale figure at the window. Elena Taylor's novel is for anyone who likes their gothic suspense windswept and isolated, with grief and menace pressing in together.