So I don’t consider this a spoiler at all.Īfter reading this description, I guessed that I might not like this one as much as the other books and I was right.

The novel drops heavy hints from almost the first page. It didn’t take a genius to figure that out from the get go. So the last line in the description of the book, basically gave away a huge plot point….spoiler……Alex isn’t really dead. Isolated in a place of deception and grief, she must find the truth or lose herself forever.Īnd then a familiar stranger arrives at Wych Elm House…. And when Jo discovers her husband’s darkest secrets, she wonders if she ever really knew him. The locals say the family is cursed, and that a ghost in the woods has never rested. Footsteps follow Jo down empty halls, and items in her bedroom are eerily rearranged. Dottie’s husband is distant, and her son was grievously injured in the war. But there is much she never knew about her husband’s origins…and the revelation of a mysterious death in the Forsyths’ past is just the beginning…Īll is not well at Wych Elm House. Working as a paid companion to Alex’s wealthy, condescending aunt, Dottie Forsyth, Jo travels to the family’s estate in the Sussex countryside.

Three years after her husband, Alex, disappeared, shot down over Germany, Jo Manders still mourns his loss. It sounded a little different than The Haunting of Maddy Clare but still within the same wheelhouse of that style, so I was intrigued.Įngland, 1921. I had read a lot of great reviews for this book and was eager to see what kind of ghost and romance this story would hold. After finishing two of Simone St James novels in less than a week, I was thrilled when this one came into the library and was waiting patiently in the holds section for me to pick up.

Lost among the living simone st james