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Night Shadows
Leaving New York’s world of haute couture and a bitter divorce in her rear-view mirror, Carissa Yates claims an unexpected inheritance—a lighthouse in Maine—after her aunt dies in a freak accident.
Carissa soon learns that a copyright dispute and a vengeful and manipulative ex-husband aren’t the only problems she has to deal with in her new life at Treacher’s Cove. The local realtor is pushing her to sell the lighthouse to a developer, her aunt’s death is looking less and less like an accident and the villagers are hiding their own dark secrets.
Someone starts playing scary pranks on Carissa, her ex moves to the Cove, and two men want relationships with her for very different reasons. Carissa’s in for a very bumpy ride, especially when she draws the attention of a psychotic killer with a grudge.
Carissa soon learns that a copyright dispute and a vengeful and manipulative ex-husband aren’t the only problems she has to deal with in her new life at Treacher’s Cove. The local realtor is pushing her to sell the lighthouse to a developer, her aunt’s death is looking less and less like an accident and the villagers are hiding their own dark secrets.
Someone starts playing scary pranks on Carissa, her ex moves to the Cove, and two men want relationships with her for very different reasons. Carissa’s in for a very bumpy ride, especially when she draws the attention of a psychotic killer with a grudge.
665 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 14, 2018
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About the author
Heather Ames
15 books13 followersHeather Ames writes two mystery/suspense series, one with a paranormal twist, standalone suspense, romantic suspense, and short contemporary romances. When she’s not writing, she’s either thinking up new plots, traveling the world, or dreaming up new adventures.
She’s lived in five countries and seven states, hitchhiked around Europe, spent a year in a sixth-floor walk-up in Paris with a view of the Eiffel Tower, traveled by planes, trains, automobiles and ocean-going liners, and worked as a bartender in Madrid, Spain. She was also a military spouse for seven years and has two children, one born in Spain, the other in North Carolina.
During a long career in healthcare she carried pepper spray and mace in her bag for home health visits in the barrios and projects of Los
Angeles, encountered a loaded gun under a pillow and a shotgun behind a front door. She prepared reports for a medical examiner on DOAs in an ER, was in the witness box at a murder trial, and has seen more dead and/or mangled bodies than the average person. Her personal life has frequently strayed far from a sedate walk in the park, too.
As a result, her novels are filled with flawed characters who deal with challenging situations in ways that offer resolutions that aren’t always neatly cut and dried. Like real life.
She’s lived in five countries and seven states, hitchhiked around Europe, spent a year in a sixth-floor walk-up in Paris with a view of the Eiffel Tower, traveled by planes, trains, automobiles and ocean-going liners, and worked as a bartender in Madrid, Spain. She was also a military spouse for seven years and has two children, one born in Spain, the other in North Carolina.
During a long career in healthcare she carried pepper spray and mace in her bag for home health visits in the barrios and projects of Los
Angeles, encountered a loaded gun under a pillow and a shotgun behind a front door. She prepared reports for a medical examiner on DOAs in an ER, was in the witness box at a murder trial, and has seen more dead and/or mangled bodies than the average person. Her personal life has frequently strayed far from a sedate walk in the park, too.
As a result, her novels are filled with flawed characters who deal with challenging situations in ways that offer resolutions that aren’t always neatly cut and dried. Like real life.
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July 2, 2018
A heart-stopping story
This romantic suspense tale has it all: a diverse cast of characters, a complex but comprehensible storyline, and even quite possibly a ghost. When Carissa Yates inherits her late aunt’s lighthouse in a remote part of Maine, she thinks she’s found a refuge from her troubles in New York City, but she soon discovers that trouble has a way of following her, and not just in the form of her vengeful ex-husband. Accidental deaths—or are they murders?—mount up all around her, leaving Carissa a suspect as well as a potential victim, until she finally learns to rely on the one person she can trust: herself. Ames’ descriptions root the novel in reality, and the plot revelations make this a classic example of a genuine page-turner.
This romantic suspense tale has it all: a diverse cast of characters, a complex but comprehensible storyline, and even quite possibly a ghost. When Carissa Yates inherits her late aunt’s lighthouse in a remote part of Maine, she thinks she’s found a refuge from her troubles in New York City, but she soon discovers that trouble has a way of following her, and not just in the form of her vengeful ex-husband. Accidental deaths—or are they murders?—mount up all around her, leaving Carissa a suspect as well as a potential victim, until she finally learns to rely on the one person she can trust: herself. Ames’ descriptions root the novel in reality, and the plot revelations make this a classic example of a genuine page-turner.
May 5, 2018
In reading Night Shadows I appreciated the haunting atmosphere of the New England coast in winter- drifting fog , heavy snowfalls, an isolated lighthouse with a death in its past- coupled with down- to- earth descriptions of the characters' lives. Cassie, the main character, is running from from her husband, a powerful man in the New York fashion world, a world which formerly she shared with him. Her new home in a cottage next to an abandoned lighthouse is a far cry from glittering parties in the city, and her strange neighbors on the headlands and many the people living in the nearby village will touch her life in unexpectedly exciting, and some frightening, ways.
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