Castle Cloud

by Joan Grant

Castle Cloud...Mysterious, Shadowy, and Evil...

Traveling alone to France from her native America, Marylda meets and falls in love with Rowan Cairdrie, handsome young laird of ancient Castle Cloud. After their whirlwind courtship and marriage, Rowan takes his bride to his ancestral home on the lonely Scottish highlands.

Isolated in the ghost-ridden castle with her husband's enigmatic grandmother, Marylda, driven by forces she cannot explain, finds herself prying into an ancient family mystery shrouded in a suffocating atmosphere of evil.

Suddenly aware of how little she really knows about her husband, Marylda discovers that she holds the key to a Pandora's box brimming over with hate, greed, and murder - as the ghosts of a violent past clutch at her with icy fingers...

Genres: Gothic

253 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1949

Reviews

[Margaret]

I've read this several times. It's a very enjoyable gothic romance, but the heroine isn't helpless, and she definitely isn't stupid. And the male lead is also not an idiot - kind of oblivious to some of the machinations of his grandmother and the girl she wanted him to marry, but mostly well-meaning and genuinely loving toward Marylda. A fun read, if you can find it!

[Mcnighteyes]

2.5 stars. Starts as a love story - ends as a ghost story.
The ending was very abrupt.
It would in my opinion have been better if it had ended with an epilogue. What happened after? Did they really end the haunting of Cloud?

[Sarah]

Some fun but goes on too long and switches genre in the middle. Too much exposition of action disguised as dialogue,