The Curse of Misty Wayfair

Jaime Jo Wright

eBook - 2019

Left at an orphanage as a child, Thea Reed vowed to find her mother someday. Now grown, her search takes her to Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin, in 1908. When clues lead her to a mental asylum, Thea uses her experience as a post-mortem photographer to gain access and assist groundskeeper Simeon Coyle in photographing the patients and uncovering the secrets within. However, she never expected her personal quest would reawaken the legend of Misty Wayfair, a murdered woman who allegedly haunts the area and whose appearance portends death. A century later, Heidi Lane receives a troubling letter from her mother--who is battling dementia--compelling her to travel to Pleasant Valley for answers to her own questions of identity. When she catches sight o...f a ghostly woman who haunts the asylum ruins in the woods, the long-standing story of Misty Wayfair returns--and with it, Heidi's fear for her own life. As two women across time seek answers about their identities and heritage, can they overcome the threat of the mysterious curse that has them inextricably intertwined?

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Suspense fiction
Published
[United States] : Baker Publishing Group 2019.
Language
English
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Jaime Jo Wright (author)
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1 online resource
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
ISBN
9781493417285
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AVAILABLE FOR USE ONLY BY IOWA CITY AND RESIDENTS OF THE CONTRACTING GOVERNMENTS OF JOHNSON COUNTY, UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, HILLS, AND LONE TREE (IA).
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Review by Booklist Review

The eerie town of Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin, is the source of the legend of Misty Wayfair, a ghost who appears before someone linked to the Kramer-Coyle family vendetta dies. When Heidi Lane visits her mother and finds a mirror image of herself in a stranger's antique photo album connecting her to the Coyle family, she falls prey to visions and messages that put in question her sanity and safety. Rumors churn that something more sinister than spirits may be amiss, and Heidi must race to uncover answers before the ghost signals another Coyle death perhaps, this time, her own. Narrated in parallel story lines from 1908 and the present, Wright creates an inspirational mystery with thrilling finesse, blending chilling supernatural elements with the raw interiority of mental illness, and taking readers on Heidi's haunting search for identity, which is sure to keep them up at night. Wright's novel features the dark history of asylums and an empathetic approach to the timeless stigma and misunderstanding of mental illness, balanced by a beautiful message of purpose, in spite of pain.--Kate Campos Copyright 2019 Booklist

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