the haunting of maddy clare by simone st james

Not only must Sarah and Matthew Ryder, Alistair’s tough and war-scarred friend, race to discover the truth behind Maddy’s life and death, they are soon caught up in Maddy’s troubling obsession with Alistair.

Feeling adrift in her life and intrigued by Alistair’s company, Sarah agrees to the job, embarking on a terrifying journey into the damaged psyche of Maddy Clare. Capable of manipulating her environment and producing hallucinations, Maddy is not resting quietly. Clare, Maddy, the ghost, hates men, so if Alistair is to verify the haunting for his next book, Sarah will have to confront the angry spirit. His postwar passion finds him writing travel books-as dry and academic as he can make them-about various haunted sites in England, but his interest is piqued by the case of a haunted barn in the small village of Waringstoke a young maidservant hanged herself in her employer’s barn and has been making mischief and threats ever since, most recently terrorizing a local vicar when he is called to perform an exorcism. According to her former employer, Mrs. Sarah Piper, a self-proclaimed modern woman living in London, finds herself living a ghost story in this post–World War I tale.Ī temp agency offers Sarah a job with a mysterious, handsome writer, Alistair Gellis, who carries scars from the recent Great War.

The haunting of maddy clare by simone st james