Hidden Gabriel
Formerly Winter Peril
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3.5 • 147 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A blizzard. A stranger's fortress. And a ghost who wants them dead.
Erica Mira drives into a Maine whiteout to chase down the sister who vanished years ago. One black-ice spin later, her car is totaled, her phone is dead, and the only light for miles is a Gilded-Age chateau locked behind a mountain of secrets.
Gabriel Murphy is a former Marine who walked away from his family's hotel empire the day his wife faked her own death and framed him for murder. He's spent two years alone in a house he can't sell and a silence he can't break — until the woman bleeding on his library floor mistakes him for an angel.
They're snowed in for the duration. So is Tiffany.
She never died. She's been living in the chateau's WWII bomb shelter, listening through the walls, slipping poison into their wine, and waiting for the storm that will finally let her finish what she started.
Forced proximity. Snowed in. Grumpy Marine meets sunshine baker. Gaslit gothic suspense with a killer hiding inside the walls.
Customer Reviews
Inexplicably bad
I don't think I've ever read it worse book. Everything about it is just bad from the plot to the poor proofreading to the way it continually circles around and around and around from the second chapter on. The characters are not believable, they will annoy you more than anything. You don't care about their fabulous sex because by the time they get together you really hate both of them. I can't even count the number of times the same words are said over and over and over until you think this author must be getting paid by the word because there's no reason that should be this long. I'd really like to smack whoever told this author that they had a talent for writing. They don't. This is just awkward and awful and I can't understand how this is a best-selling author. Except for the X-rated sex, it's written at a junior high level. It's just an insult to humanity that this book even exists.