{"product_id":"gray-jane-lainie-the-ghosts-of-hayward-hall-9781764300414","title":"The Ghosts of Hayward Hall","description":"A Gothic Mystery Romance set in a rambling country house Oxfordshire in 1975.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhispers of ghosts and suspicions of murder. A slow-burn romance in a house of dark shadows and painful memories.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Lindens. A perfect family, reclusive, rich and respected, but haunted by tragedy and with terrible secrets to hide.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDaniel, a man obsessed with his dead wife Caroline, whose ghost he sees on the stairs on moonlit nights. A man addicted to whisky, prone to violent rage, and living in his own dark world.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHis sister Mary, desperate to hide the family dysfunction, visiting a mysterious friend whose name no one in her family knows.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDaniel's son Ryan, scarred by something that happened when he was a child. Something he will never discuss. Something he can never break free from.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nMary's son Pat, practical and level-headed, yet dreaming of escape from Hayward.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nJane, nineteen, naïve, vulnerable, alone in the world, invited to stay with her late father's cousins in the house where he grew up, with a family she scarcely knew existed. Yet they have photos of her on their walls, and know all about her.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAs Jane slowly uncovers past tragedies and untangles past secrets, she becomes an integral part of the strange family at Hayward Hall, gradually recovering from the loss of her parents and her great-aunt, and wanting to help Ryan move on from the past.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nBut some secrets remain stubbornly hidden, as if the house itself is protecting them.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhy did her father leave this house, never to return? Who is Mary's secret lover? Is he the father of Pat? What happened to Ryan? Why is there so much hostility between Daniel and his son?\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAnd can Daniel be trusted? Jane becomes increasingly afraid of him.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nUntil tensions explode in a terrifying echo of a long ago evil that threatens to engulf them all.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThat night the ghost of Caroline is clearly seen on the stair landing. In the morning a man lies dead in the hall below.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSuspicions. Accusations. Did he fall, or was he pushed? Was the woman on the stairs a ghost or the murderer? Or both?\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHayward Hall holds yet another dark secret.\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat really happened that night?\n\u003cbr\u003e\nImmerse yourself in a long cosy read full of romance, ghosts, murder, dark secrets and a feast of 1970s nostalgia, with cameos from the 1950s and WW2.","brand":"Lainie Jane Gray","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53820515877206,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0925\/5829\/5382\/files\/product_image_9781764300414_1.jpg?v=1781823141","url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/gray-jane-lainie-the-ghosts-of-hayward-hall-9781764300414","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}