I enjoyed this, but I'm really not sure how I feel about the ending.

 

This feels very much like a pretty standard Barbara Michaels book. We have the hints of romance, we have a haunted house, we have weird and unexplained things going on, we have a potential family secret (or possibly several), and we have a character who gets to play the general non-believer who helps to crack the whole thing open.

 

The characters were interesting, though I never felt completely invested in any of them. Some of them were decidedly odd, and the romance fell completely flat for me. 

 

I was intrigued by what was going on in the house, and it was legitimately creepy in several places. I'm a sucker for unexplained paranormal events, and I adore haunted houses (in fiction only, admittedly), so I was hoping to be really awed. 

 

The ending was...odd. I admittedly didn't see it coming, and it was (as far as I have read) unique among Barbara Michaels books, and I like the idea 

but in the end I didn't really feel satisfied. I enjoyed the build-up a lot more than the culmination of the story, which always leaves me a bit annoyed. 

 

It is a solid entry into Barbara Michaels' gothic fiction, though, so if you are a fan it is worth a read.