[sufue]

Inheritance is £0.99 in the UK right now. And the next book in the series, The Mirror, is now up for pre-sale, although not out until November 28, 2024!!! By which time I probably will have mostly forgotten Inheritance, even with the monster cliff-hanger, and may or may not buy the next one...

Anyway, here are links:
Kindle UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0BXWT8SVR
Kobo US: https://www.kobo.com/gb/en/ebook/inheritance-171

And the blurb:

Spoiler:

1806. Astrid Poole is murdered on her wedding day. Her last words - a promise to her husband never to leave him...

After finding her fiancé in a compromising position with her cousin, Sonya MacTavish needs an escape. When a lawyer turns up on her doorstep out of the blue with news that she has inherited a beautiful Victorian house, Sonya thinks maybe this is just the change of scene she needs.

The house - nicknamed Lost Bride manor - is beautiful, the setting idyllic and the local town offers Sonya the smalltown comforts she craves after life in a big city. So what if there are sometimes shadows in the windows, objects move of their own accord and music starts playing out of nowhere. Sonya can live with the house being a little haunted.

But things soon start to take a darker turn and it becomes clear that Sonya has inherited far more than a house. She has inherited a centuries-old curse, and a puzzle she must solve if there is any hope of breaking it...

Originally Posted by sufue

For the Nora Roberts readers amongst us, and since this is Romance and Discussion, I have a question.

I have read and liked a lot of her JD Robb/In Death books, but haven't read (that I remember) any of her romance/romantic suspense books. So I was happy to just get an advance review copy of The Inheritance, which is the first in a new trilogy coming out this fall. And it was a fun read, and I liked it a lot, until it ended in an abrupt cliff-hanger the size of the Cliffs of Moher. Is this typical for her in planned trilogies? I get that in a planned three-book series, there is going to be unresolved stuff for the later books. But this was so abrupt and so stark that I kept looking for more paragraphs/chapters, even after I knew for sure that that really was the end of the book.

I have to write a review for it now, and just have no idea what to do with the cliff-hanger (yikes), other than, I guess, let readers know that it's a doozie. When Dana Stabenow did it a few years back in her Kate Shugak mystery series, of which I'm a regular reader, I held a grudge for quite a while, and wasn't shy about it. But when I'm not a regular reader, I'm less sure of how blunt to be. I would think Roberts would be a better writer, and with enough loyal fans, than to need to do that just to make you buy the next book...