The House at Watch Hill
A Novel
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4.2 • 154 Ratings
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Marie Moning is back with a gripping, imaginative, and seductive new series in which a young woman moves to Divinity, Louisiana, to inherit a large fortune and a Gothic mansion full of mysteries and ominous secrets...
Zo Grey is reeling from the sudden death of her mother when she receives a surprising call from an attorney in Divinity, Louisiana, with the news she has been left an inheritance by a distant relative, the terms of which he will only discuss in person. Destitute and alone, with nothing left to lose, Zo heads to Divinity and discovers she is the sole beneficiary of a huge fortune and a monstrosity of a house that sits ominously at the peak of Watch Hill—but she must live in it, alone, for three years before the house, or the money, is hers.
Met with this irresistible opportunity to finally build a future for herself, Zo puts aside her misgivings about the foreboding Gothic mansion and the strange circumstances, and moves in, where she is quickly met by a red-eyed Stygian owl and an impossibly sexy Scottish groundskeeper.
Her new home is full of countless secrets and mystifying riddles, with doors that go nowhere, others that are impossible to open, and a turret into which there is no visible means of ingress. And the townspeople are odd…
What Zo doesn’t yet know is that her own roots lie in this very house and that in order to discover her true identity and awaken her dormant powers, she will have to face off against sinister forces she doesn’t quite comprehend—or risk being consumed by them.
“This book has everything! A witchy, sexy read that made me sleep with the lights on…Karen Marie Moning at her best!”
-Sophie Jordan, New York Times bestselling author
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Witches and female empowerment are the focus of Moning's heavy-handed latest (after the Fever series). Zodeckymira "Zo" Grey has spent the last several years caring for her dying mother at the expense of both her personal and professional life. Zo is used to this kind of liminal existence, however. When she was growing up, they moved from town to town, with no answers from her mother as to why. After tragedy strikes during a job interview, Zo finds herself suddenly homeless—until she learns that a wealthy, unknown relative has left her a fortune. Whisked away to Divinity, La., Zo discovers a side of the family her mother was keeping from her and a legacy of magic she was never allowed to explore. The town is idyllic, but the house Zo has inherited is foreboding, and she has enemies who want her gone before her burgeoning magic can fully manifest. The lack of subtlety in Zo's coming-of-power narrative frustrates, with Moning holding the reader's hand every step of the way. Still, plentiful magic and eventual romance will please fans of urban fantasy who aren't looking for anything too challenging.
Customer Reviews
Intriguing puzzle of a story
The story is intriguing, and the characterization was sly. I found it hard to empathize with the protagonist...at first. I started putting pieces together that seemed to fit...and then started trying to rearrange the pieces. It seemed to me that the pieces just kept changing their contours. I hope that the story continues!
The House at Watch Hill
Do not bother reading this book. It stops in the middle of the story. There is no follow up book. It should never have been released as is.
Another amazing book by one of my favorite authors.
The only thing I don’t like is having to wait for the rest of the series.