The Cottage on Ghost Lane: a romantic mystery thriller (The Beach House Mystery Series Book 1)

The Cottage on Ghost Lane: a romantic mystery thriller 

(The Beach House Mystery Series Book 1) 

by Christy Barritt  (Author) 

Each house has a history. Each person has a secret. Each turn of events leads to danger.

Come back to me.

Cole Dalton’s wife, Caroline, had the words etched onto a pendant for him. Each time he deployed overseas as a military bomb tech, she stitched the pendant into his uniform. Cole returned safely from the battlefield . . . only to bury his wife after a tragic car accident.

Cole moves into their beachside cottage to both heal and find closure after Caroline’s death. But on the first day he arrives, he finds an intruder searching for something and desperate enough to kill.

Mysterious incidents continue to occur, leading Cole to ask: Was Caroline hiding something in the months before she died? But what? And why?

As danger closes in and a storm lingers off the coast, Cole must find answers. But ghosts of the past have a stranglehold on him. With his heart on the line, he must overcome the grief haunting him . . . or his story will become part of his cottage’s tragic history.

My thoughts: Christy Barritt is an off the wall romantic suspense writer where you can expect the unexpected. Her stories are fast-paced, engaging, and with plenty of unexpected twists. I wondered if this book would get to a happy ending. Cole has gone to bury his wife or rather scatter her ashes but instead he rescues a drowning woman which plunges him into an unexpected riptide.  Add a hurricane, a nosy neighbor, and plenty of drama and you have a non formula romantic suspense that you won't be able to put down. I was given a copy free. All opinions are my own.