The fate of Mercy Alban / Wendy Webb.
"Grace Alban has spent more than twenty years avoiding her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior, for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother's unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter back, she finds more is haunting the halls and passageways of Alban House than her own personal demons. Long-buried family secrets, a packet of old love letters, and a lost manuscript plunge Grace into a decades-old mystery about a scandalous party at Alban House, when a world-famous author took his own life and Grace's aunt disappeared without a trace. The night has been shrouded in secrecy by the powerful Alban family for all of these years. Her mother intended to tell the truth about that night to a reporter on the very day she died--could it have been murder? Or was she a victim of the supposed Alban curse? Grace soon realizes her family secrets tangle and twist as darkly as the mansion's secret passages. With the help of the disarmingly kind-and attractive-Reverend Matthew Parker, Grace must uncover the truth about her home and its curse before she and her daughter become the next victims."-- P. [4] of cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781401341930
- ISBN: 1401341934
- Physical Description: 344 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : Hyperion, 2013.
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- General Note:
- Includes reading group guide.
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- Single mothers > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction. - Genre:
- Fiction.
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- 10 of 10 copies available at NC Cardinal.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Madison Main Library | FIC WEB (Text) | 30229100848687 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | WEB (Text) | 33258007640225 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Morganton Public Library | F WEB (Text) | 33557003738978 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Pasquotank Library Main | F WEB (Text) | 39488101584235 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Rutherford County Library | F Web (Text) | 38801101787791 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Southside Branch | FIC Webb, Wendy (Text) | 0112519344868 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Statesville Main Library | F WEBB (Text) | 33114017503434 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Statesville Main Library | F WEBB (Text) | 33114017503442 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Thomasville Public Library | F W (Text) | 25908006418292 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Weaverville Library | F WEB (Text) | 0020509731129 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
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