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4️⃣🎨🖌 Tess is turning her family vacation home into a B&B. The back room has been boarded up her whole life. During renovations, the room is opened to discover her grandfathers art studio & hidden disturbing paintings. She hears scratching at night & has weird dreams which leads to questions about what happened in the room & is something trapped in there. Half cozy strangers to lovers, half horror, I loved how things developed & were revealed.❄️

A quick, pleasant read. A little creepy and a lot cozy. Ghosts scratching in the night, snowshoeing and a winter picnic on the shore of Lake Superior during the day.

#CloakandDaggerChristmas Prompt: Last Christmas - read a mystery published in 2022

Fans of horror probably wouldn't like this fairly tame haunted house story but I'm good with things not getting too gruesome. Tess is turning her family home into a B&B but the closed up space that should be the owners suite has a few issues. Enter the handyman descended from the town's founders* and the ghost busting neighbor who, eventually, set everything right and solve a couple town mysteries. It's a soft pick for me.

I liked the ghost story elements and the mystery, but the romantic subplot was a little annoying. Too much Hallmark channel feel for what i wanted to be a creepy haunted house story... I'm giving it a pick because it was fast paced and kept me engaged, but its a low pick.

This book was quite the ride. The main character went about her life, having dinner with the neighbors, fixing up her house to turn it into a B&B, taking her dog for a walk, calling her son and her parents, meeting someone, all while something lurked ominously in the background. It was quite the build up, and I didn't want to stop reading until the end.

Next up on Kindle: Tess is turning her old family home into a bed & breakfast. In a hidden art studio of her grandfather's, she finds sinister & disturbing paintings that spark nightmares. The ominous brush strokes, scratches at the door, and moving shadows pull Tess further & further into darkness.

This is a KU First Read and I have to say if you‘re into the gothic, dark, spooky and mysterious you‘ll enjoy this read. Really engaging characters and enough suspense and spooky to keep you reading ⭐️⭐️⭐️💫

Some of the #AmazonFirstReads have been hit or miss but I am really enjoying this one. I discovered it when I was looking for a replacement for my first #TBRTarot pick, which was just not for me (Wolf Winter). Plan on finishing this up tonight!

#Book.31.2022

My two Amazon First Picks for the month. The tagged book is a gothic novel set on the coast of Lake Superior, where Tess Bell is trying to turn an inherited home into a B&B. She unearths disturbing paintings in the art studio & starts having nightmares & hearing scratching at the door. In Keeper of Enchanted Rooms, an author inherits a house that has decided to lock him in. He consults an expert who moves in & teaches him to befriend the house.

#AmazonFirstReads … I can‘t decide. October 2022 we get two free books. What did you choose or did none look good to you? Happy weekend … new month … (hopefully better than last month) 🙌🏻 … 🎉