The Widow of Pale Harbor

By Hester Fox

Book Overview

A town gripped by fear. A woman accused of witchcraft. Who can save Pale Harbor from itself?

Maine, 1846. Gabriel Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt him in Massachusetts after his wife's death, so he moves to Maine, taking a position as a minister in the remote village of Pale Harbor.

But not all is as it seems in the sleepy town. Strange, unsettling things have been happening, and the townspeople claim that only one person can be responsible: Sophronia Carver, a reclusive widow who lives with a spinster maid in the eerie Castle Carver. Sophronia must be a witch, and she almost certainly killed her husband.

As the incidents escalate, one thing becomes clear: they are the work of a twisted person inspired by the wildly popular stories of Mr. Edgar Allan Poe. And Gabriel must find answers, or Pale Harbor will suffer a fate worthy of Poe's darkest tales.

Hester Fox comes to writing from a background in the museum field as a collections maintenance technician. This job has taken her from historic houses to fine art museums, where she has the privilege of cleaning and caring for collections that range from paintings by old masters to ancient artifacts to early-American furniture. She is a keen painter and has a master's degree in historical archaeology, as well as a background in medieval studies and art history. Hester lives outside Boston with her husband.

Don't miss A MAGIC DEEP & DROWNING, Hester Fox's lush, enchanting reimagining of The Little Mermaid, where a young woman in 1650 Friesland must face a deadly choice between love, duty, and a mythic legacy...

Look for these other gothic mysteries from Hester Fox:
The Book of Thorns The Last Heir to Blackwood Library The Witch of Willow Hall The Orphan of Cemetery Hill A Lullaby for Witches

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1525834266
• ISBN13: 9781525834264
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Graydon House
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Not as good as her first

I enjoyed Hester Fox's debute novel and was really excited for the novel's release. I enjoyed it, but had a lot of trouble getting into the plot line. There is some things you need to suspend belief for, like the kind of insta love aspect and some of the things done to scare Sophronia or the fact that that a person can just show up at a church and take over sermon there? I think that some of the characters were a little on the flat side, but I really enjoyed Sophronia's character a lot. Overall I definitely think it was an alright book but not one I would necessarily read again.