Regan Forest

Karen Barnett (who's 30) from California, goes back home to Montana to sort through her father's belongings, he died nine days ago. While she's there she brings down a box of her mother's possessions from the attic. Inside the box she finds an envelope with a photograph of a house, the house of her nightmares. Does this house really exist? She has been seeing this house in her dreams/nightmares since she was a child. On the back of the photo one word is scrawled---Tyrone.

She leaves and goes back to California, but she can't stop thinking about the photo of the house. She has a small retail jewelry shop, but she's having trouble working and concentrating, she's becoming obsessed with the picture of the house. She eventually starts looking for towns named Tyrone. She finds three states that have towns named Tyrone, decides on Nebraska, and on impulse goes there to hopefully find this house. While driving through Tyrone (in Nebraska) she cruises up and down streets and finally, to her amazement, finds the house. While she's outside looking at the house a man who is walking by stops and talks to her. His name is Steve Hayes (33) and he is the town mayor. His grandmother is the owner of the abandoned house, it hasn't been lived in for many decades, about 25 years. Steve eventually lets her in the house (he has a key) and Karen wonders how she knew what this house looks like, even on the inside? She has never been here before, or has she? There are rumors that the house is haunted, that a ghost is sometimes seen in an upstairs window, and a murder could have been committed in this house many years ago. Karen needs to find some answers and Steve tries to help her, but the townspeople are very reluctant to talk and to help her out.

This was an enjoyable, captivating, and sometimes sad read with a creepy old abandoned house, strange townsfolk, and decades-old secrets. I found the main couple likable and the cast of characters interesting. I was really curious to see how this would all turn out! A good older Harlequin Intrigue.… (més)