Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

The Lodger

Helen Scarlett
3.78/5 (299 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
This second novel from the author of The Deception of Harriet Fleet takes us back to the aftermath of the Great War in another haunting, atmospheric Gothic tale.

London in 1919 was a city of ghosts and absences, haunted by the men who marched away but never came back from 'the war to end all wars.'

Grace Armstrong believes that she has come to terms with her own loss, the death of her fiancé, the brilliant and dazzling best friend of her brother. He was declared Missing in Action during the Battle of the Somme, but he starts to reappear both in her waking life and dreams.

Grace is appalled when a body, dragged from the Thames, is identified as Catherine Smith, who has lodged with Grace and her family for the last eight years before suddenly disappearing.

Catherine had been more than a lodger; she had become a close friend to Grace, who feels compelled to find out what happened. In doing so she is drawn reluctantly into the sordid and dangerous underbelly of London and a scandal that rocked Edwardian society. Soon Grace finds herself under threat, and the only person prepared to listen is the brooding Tom Monaghan. But Tom has dark shadows of his own to navigate before being able to put his past behind him to help Grace in her quest for the truth.
Format:
Kindle Edition
Pages:
326 pages
Publication:
2023
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1529407613
ISBN13:
9781529407617
kindle Asin:
B09825T2MK

The Lodger

Helen Scarlett
3.78/5 (299 ratings)
Read Download
This second novel from the author of The Deception of Harriet Fleet takes us back to the aftermath of the Great War in another haunting, atmospheric Gothic tale.

London in 1919 was a city of ghosts and absences, haunted by the men who marched away but never came back from 'the war to end all wars.'

Grace Armstrong believes that she has come to terms with her own loss, the death of her fiancé, the brilliant and dazzling best friend of her brother. He was declared Missing in Action during the Battle of the Somme, but he starts to reappear both in her waking life and dreams.

Grace is appalled when a body, dragged from the Thames, is identified as Catherine Smith, who has lodged with Grace and her family for the last eight years before suddenly disappearing.

Catherine had been more than a lodger; she had become a close friend to Grace, who feels compelled to find out what happened. In doing so she is drawn reluctantly into the sordid and dangerous underbelly of London and a scandal that rocked Edwardian society. Soon Grace finds herself under threat, and the only person prepared to listen is the brooding Tom Monaghan. But Tom has dark shadows of his own to navigate before being able to put his past behind him to help Grace in her quest for the truth.
Format:
Kindle Edition
Pages:
326 pages
Publication:
2023
Publisher:
Edition:
Language:
ISBN10:
1529407613
ISBN13:
9781529407617
kindle Asin:
B09825T2MK

More Books

Fyneshade

Kate Griffin

The Black Feathers

Rebecca Netley

The Burial Plot

Elizabeth Macneal

The Household

Stacey Halls

The King's Witches

Kate Foster

The Secrets of Hartwood Hall

Katie Lumsden

The Revels

Stacey Thomas

The Winter Spirits: Ghostly Tales for Frosty Nights

Bridget Collins

The Company

J.M. Varese

The Herbalist's Secret

Annabelle Marx

The Fascination

Essie Fox

The Toll House

Carly Reagon