*Spoiler free*

Practical, unassuming Jane Shoringfield has done the calculations, and decided that the most secure path forward is this: a husband, in a marriage of convenience, who will allow her to remain independent and occupied with meaningful work. Her first choice, the dashing but reclusive doctor Augustine Lawrence, agrees to her proposal with only one condition: that she must never visit Lindridge Hall, his crumbling family manor outside of town. Yet on their wedding night, an accident strands her at his door in a pitch-black rainstorm, and she finds him changed. Gone is the bold, courageous surgeon, and in his place is a terrified, paranoid man—one who cannot tell reality from nightmare, and fears Jane is an apparition, come to haunt him. By morning, Augustine is himself again, but Jane knows something is deeply wrong at Lindridge Hall, and with the man she has so hastily bound her safety to.

I was certainly intrigued by what this book was about. And the cover is haunting, making me want to read it even more. A practical woman finds herself a practical marriage with a practical man. But what their house holds is anything but practical. It sounded like a twist on the classic haunted house story, and I was very curious to see what would happen and what I would think of it!

Continue reading “The Death Of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling” →