The Fate of Mercy Alban

By Wendy Webb

Book Overview

Uncover magic and mystery in "a tale rife with dark family secrets, hidden passageways, love, intrigue, and witchcraft" (Kirkus Reviews).
Grace Alban has spent more than twenty years avoiding her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior, for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother's unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter back, she finds more is haunting the halls and passageways of Alban House than her own personal demons.

Long-buried family secrets, a packet of old love letters, and a lost manuscript plunge Grace into a decades-old mystery about a scandalous party at Alban House, when a world-famous author took his own life and Grace's aunt disappeared without a trace. The night has been shrouded in secrecy by the powerful Alban family for all of these years. Her mother intended to tell the truth about that night to a reporter on the very day she died--could it have been murder? Or was she a victim of the supposed Alban curse? Grace soon realizes her family secrets tangle and twist as darkly as the mansion's secret passages.

With the help of the disarmingly kind--and attractive--Reverend Matthew Parker, Grace must uncover the truth about her home and its curse before she and her daughter become the next victims.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1401341934
• ISBN13: 9781401341930
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A snowstorm, cozy blanket, one old gas lamp and The Fate of Mercy Alban...

Wendy Webb is a keeper after finishing this book. What is better than a good snowstorm to read? Couldn't stop even when the power went out and reading by an old kerosene lamp really added to the eeriness of this book. It is hard to pull one over on me but alas she had me 2nd guessing myself and then she flipped the script and got me. Ordered 2 more of her books and will probably ready them all now. Thx Ms. Webb

Didn’t see that coming

As a lifelong reader, I stumbled upon Wendy Webb on 2021. Once I read Daughters of the Lake, I was hooked. Though it did t dawn on me that there was a certain order to read the books, they all have a story line of their own. The Keepers of Metsan Valo is a magical story of family, mystery, death and life/love. I can never put down Wendy Webb’s books. She weaves her stories effortlessly while building suspense. This one was a bit different with magic. Loved it!