Two women, a history of witchcraft and ill fraught relationships.... and their meeting. This is a great twist on a haunted house story mixed in with a split-timeline historical fiction. The story follows present day Augusta, a mild0mannered museum worker who is in a loveless relationship seeking to find some meaning in her life.... when a job listing calls for her and this new job will change her forever. The second timeline follows the beautiful and tempestuous Margaret Harlowe who lives in the 1970s and is gifted with magic and falls in love with a local shopkeeper... however their love story was doomed from the start. Augusta finds secrets at her new workplace that draw her into a 150 year old quest for revenge. Augusta finds that she is drawn to Margaret... and that they share many things... but soon the line between who she is and who Margaret is starts to blur and the mystery behind Margaret’s life consumes her while her own life might start to crumble under Margaret’s thirst for revenge. This was definitely an interesting story steeped in doomed romance with hints of magic and learning to find confidence in yourself.

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