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| ISBN 0425281604 (ISBN13: 978042581604) |
Canada, 1898. The only life that Ruby Proulx has ever known is that of a nomad, travelling across the country with her snake-oil salesman father. She dreams of taking root somewhere, someday, but, until she can, she makes her way reading tarot cards. Yet she never imagined her own life would take such a turn...
After one of her father's medical "miracles" goes deadly wrong, Ruby evades authorities by hiding in th seaside resort town of Old Orchard, Maine, where her strange Aunt Honoria owns the Hotel Belden, a unique resistance that caters to spiritualists - a place where Ruby can keep her dark secret hidden.
But Ruby's plan begins to crumble after a psychic investigator checks into the hotel and senses Ruby is hiding more than she's letting on. Now Ruby must do what she can to escape both his attention and Aunt Honoria's insistence that should has a true gift, before she loses her precious new home and her family forever...
Pages 340
Published September 6th 2016
(Berkley Books)
First Impression
I feel sorry for Ruby, she has to put up with a overbearing father who seems to be more focused on scamming desperate people out of money and "investing" it on another scheme.
Warren Yancey, known as "Yancey" is a police officer at Old Orchard, he is driven to do the right thing in the line of his work especially when "pickpockets had flown into town like a red tide".
My Rating ⭐⭐⭐
After Ruby's father comes up with a new scam "the Invigorizer" "a wooden box with shiny bits of copper and black rubber tubes." Ruby has no other choice but to flee when the "trial run" ends in a deadly accident.
Yancey and Ruby first meet when Ruby is nearly robbed when she leaves the train station and Yancey takes her to the police station to recover from a the incident that left her unconscious...
There are surprises in store the more you read. I found myself enthralled with Ruby's character and loved finding more about her as I got closer to the end.
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