Very well written sustains suspense contains eeriness and the occasional spooks nice ending 9780821720745 This novel is one of the better Zebra Gothics I ve read so many gothics at this point that I tend to figure out the mystery well in advance of the ending but in this case I was kept guessing I also loved the setting which is a fictional hot springs located near the real life Hot Springs Arkansas Hot Springs has a few scenes in the book as well Today Hot Springs is a national park which has preserved the bathhouses and other scenery mentioned in this book which takes place during Hot Springs peak popularity as a health resort town 9780821720745 The Milwood Hotel It rose like a pale castle in the moonlight against a backdrop of bluffs and drifting steam Owned by the powerful Hampton family it had once been a fashionable resort where the wealthy came to take the waters Now it presided in brooding isilation over the wraith like mists of the hot springs Accompanying her arthritic aunt aunt on her yearly visit to the magnificent hotel young Joanna Forester wondered what tragedy had caused such a reversal in the Hampton fortunes And what dark secrets lay behind the shifting ambitions the uneasy alliances of the Hamptons themselves But Joanna spirited and forthright could not foresee that she herself would prove a catalyst to long dormant passions And that by surrendering to love she would lose her chance to escape from the gathering dangers the deadly embrace of The Mists of Milwood The Mists of Milwood
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