Author: Amy Rae Durreson
Publisher: DSP Publications
Release Date: October 29, 2019
Genre(s): Things That Go Bump in the Night
Page Count: 338
Rating: 5+ stars out of 5
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It's hard to define this book - Ghost story? Yes. Horror? Absolutely. Paranormal? Of course. Contemporary M/M romance? Yes, and nicely done. Amy Rae Durreson layers a contemporary story of a man sent to the Scottish Border to assess an old orphanage for use as a children's school, and as he slowly learns of its horrific past and deaths in 1944, he also realizes the site has been a catalyse for evil for far longer. Durreson beautifully combines Celtic and older cultural legends and myths into a work that is definitely my favorite book of this year and any year.
The author does a magnificent job of pulling the reader in bit by bit. As Leon muses about the Scottish borderlands: "Every region had its dark history, of course, but here it still seemed close to the skin, like a bone fractured but not quite snapped, one that could puncture through into the modern world at any moment."
