This year we’re just going to have a nice, normal Christmas…
Last year’s Christmas at Wrea Head Hall didn’t quite go to plan which is why Jess Croft is determined this festive season will be the one to remember, for the right reasons. And she has plenty of reasons to be hopeful, she’s going to marry the man of her dreams, Jack Stone, seven days after New Year’s Eve. However, as family secrets are revealed in hidden letters and two unexpected guests turn up on the doorstep, Jess is left wondering whether her life will ever be the same again.
Can Jess and Jack still experience a peaceful festive season that they had imagined or are there some problems that even Christmas can’t fix?
Title: The House of Christmas Secrets
Author: Lynda Stacey
Published By: Choc Lit
Publication Date: 5th December 2017
Our Review
This book is not just for Christmas, it can be read all year round as it is a thriller/gritty crime novel rather than a gentle Christmas story.
This is the sequel to House of Secrets which is again set in the beautiful Wrea Head Hall where we find out more about Madeleine's sister Jess and what happens a year later.
Fast paced and gripping it kept me wanting to find out what would happen next throughout the whole book.
Two strangers come looking for Jess at Wrea Head Hall and danger is not far behind them. What follows plunges her and her family into a living nightmare. I was totally on edge whilst reading this part as it was so gritty with lots of tense moments.
This could be read as a stand alone as we are told what happens in the first book, however I'm glad I read the House of Secrets first to have the in depth details of Maddie's story.
The plot is exciting and scary and it unfolds at the same time as more secrets about the original family at Wrea Head Hall are revealed. This added such an interesting thread to the main story with a really satisfactory ending.
Sincerely
Book Angel x
About the Author
Lynda grew up in the mining village of Bentley, Doncaster, in South Yorkshire and went to both Bentley New Village School, and Don Valley High School.
She is currently the Sales Director of a stationery, office supplies and office furniture company in Doncaster, where she has worked for the past 25 years. Prior to this she’d also been a nurse, a model, an emergency first response instructor and a PADI Scuba Diving Instructor … and yes, she was crazy enough to dive in the sea with sharks, without a cage.
Following a car accident in 2008, Lynda was left with limited mobility in her right arm. Unable to dive or teach anymore, she turned to her love of writing, a hobby she’d followed avidly since being a teenager.
Her own life story, along with varied career choices helps Lynda to create stories of romantic suspense, with challenging and unpredictable plots, along with (as in all romances) very happy endings.
Lynda joined the Romantic Novelist Association in 2014 under the umbrella of the New Writers Scheme and in 2015, her debut novel House of Secrets won the Choc Lit Search for a Star competition.
She lives in a small rural hamlet near Doncaster, with her ‘hero at home husband’, Haydn, whom she’s been happily married to for over 20 years.
Come and find me at www.lyndastacey.co.uk to hear my latest news. You could follow me on Facebook at www.facebook.com/lyndastaceyauthor or watch out for my tweets @Lyndastacey
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