The Fate of Mercy Alban

Grace Alban has spent more than twenty years avoiding her childhood home,the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superiorfor reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother’s unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter backshe finds more is haunting the halls and passageways of Alban House than her own personal demons. Long-buried family secretsa packet of old love lettersand a lost manuscript plunge Grace into a decades-old mystery about a scandalous party at Alban Housewhen 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 ParkerGrace must uncover the truth about her home and its curse before she and her daughter become the next victims.