Willa can’t move on. It’s been
three years since her husband died unexpectedly while alone at their beach
house. She feels her teenage son Jamie has lost both parents, as she failed to
be the mom he needed to work through his own grief.
Finally deciding it’s time to
sell the beach house, she returns to it for the first time since Ben’s death. Arriving
alone, she is quickly visited by Ben’s ghost. Is he real? Or is she losing her
last connection to sanity? Reluctantly, Jamie joins his mother to help prepare
the beach house for sale. Her best friend Kristin, and daughter Kelsey, soon
join them.
I love it when an author takes
a supernatural situation and makes it totally believable. Harbison accomplished
this wonderfully. Whether or not you believe in ghosts, or in an afterlife,
your heart will break for Willa as she questions her sanity and sinks into her
grief.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
The writing was top-notch. The characters were developed, and the settings were
detailed. The ending was very satisfying.
There were F bombs, though it
wasn’t overflowing with foul language as many of today’s reads can be. Overall,
I wasn’t put off by the language, but prefer a clean read.
I
give this book 5 stars (with an asterisk for language.)
I received a complimentary copy of this book from
St.Martin’s Press via NetGalley.
Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.
