The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond

Jaime Jo Wright is the author of the acclaimed novel The House on Foster Hill.  She's also the Publishers Weekly and ECPA bestselling author of two novellas.  Jaime works as a human resources director in Wisconsin, where she lives with her husband and two children.
To learn more about Jaime and her writing, visit jaimewrightbooks.com.

For over a century, the town of Gossamer Grove has thrived on its charm and Midwestern values, but Annalise Forsythe knows painful secrets, including her own, hover just beneath the pleasant facade.  Yet her strange and sudden inheritance of a run down trailer home - full of pictures, vintage obituaries, and old revival posters - leaves her wholly unprepared for how truly dark and deadly those secrets may be.

A century earlier, Gossamer Grove is stirred into chaos by the arrival of controversial and charismatic twin revivalists.  The chaos takes a murderous turn when Libby Sheffield, while working at her father's newspaper, receives an obituary for a reputable church deacon hours before his death.  As she works with the deacon's son to solve the crime, it becomes clear that a reckoning has come to town - but it isn't until another obituary arrives at the paper that they realize the true depths of the danger they've waded into.

Two women, separated by a hundred years, must unravel the mysteries of their own town before it's too late and they lose their future - or their very souls.

My Thoughts:
Wright, a.k.a. "Time Slip Queen" has knocked another one out of the ballpark with her latest novel The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond.  With her keen ability to weave past and present together, Wright is a master at writing stories that have a bit of eerie, mixing in well-developed characters, and the perfect amount of twists and turns that keep readers engaged and often on the edge of their seats...like, all night on the edge of their seats!  Once you begin Annalise and Libby's story, you won't be able to put it down until the last page has been turned.  And, on top of all that, Wright peppers sound theology throughout this book that isn't "preachy" but there as a natural part of the story.
*I received a complimentary copy of the book from the publisher.  All opinions stated here are my own.

Happy "up all night" reading ya'll,
Jennifer