The Haunting of Maddy Clare

A woman of limited means and even less experience must confront a vengeful spirit in this haunting novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Broken Girls and The Sun Down Motel.

1920s England. Sarah Piper's lonely, threadbare existence changes when her temporary agency sends her to assist an obsessed ghost hunter. Alistair Gellis--rich, handsome, and scarred by World War I--has been summoned to investigate the spirit of the nineteen-year-old maid Maddy Clare, who is said to haunt the barn where she committed suicide.

Maddy hated men in life, and she will not speak to them in death. But Sarah is unprepared to confront an angry ghost--real or imagined--on her own. She's even less prepared for the arrival of Alistair's associate, rough, unsettling Matthew Ryder, also a veteran of the trenches, whose scars go deeper than Sarah can reach.

Soon, Sarah is caught up in a desperate struggle. For Maddy's ghost is no hoax--she's real, she's angry, and she has powers that defy all reason. Now, Sarah and Matthew must discover who Maddy was, where she came from, and what is driving her desire for vengeance--before she destroys them all....

Author: Simone St James
Publisher: Berkley Books
Published: 03/06/2012
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 8.14h x 5.55w x 0.76d
ISBN: 9780451235688
Audience: Young Adult


Award: Rita Awards - Winner
Award: Rita Awards - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2012
Romantic Times 03/01/2012 pg. 72 - Very Good
Publishers Weekly 04/16/2012
Voice of Youth Advocates 08/01/2012 pg. 286 - Recommended - Better Than Most

About the Author
Simone St. James is the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Sun Down Motel, The Broken Girls, Lost Among the Living, and The Haunting of Maddy Clare. She wrote her first ghost story, about a haunted library, when she was in high school, and spent twenty years behind the scenes in the television business before leaving to write full-time.