The Specter: The Waxwood Series: Book 1

To what lengths will one go to exorcise a specter?One rainy morning in 1892 people gather to mourn the death of San Francisco socialite Penelope Alderdice. Among them is a strange little woman named Bertha Ross who claims to have known Grace in the 1850s in the small town of Waxwood. But Penelopes granddaughter Vivian has never heard of Grace or Waxwood.Bertha reveals surprising details about Graces life in Waxwood including a love affair with Evan an artist and member of Brandywine Waxwoods art colony.Vivians mother Larissa insists Bertha is an imposter who has come not to mourn a woman she knew in her youth but to stir up trouble. Vivian however suspects the key to her grandmothers life and her own lies in Waxwood. She journeys to Brandywine where she meets Verina Jones Evans niece and discovers a packet of letters her grandmother wrote forty years ago about her time in Waxwood.As Vivian confronts the specter that holds the truth to secrets buried in the family consciousness she examines her grandmothers life as a mid-19th century debutante and her own as a Gilded Age belle. Will she find her way out into the world as an autonomous being or will she be haunted by the specter of her grandmothers unhappiness all her life?To learn more about the Waxwood Series please click here.