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A Brush With Shadows
A Brush With Shadows
A Brush With Shadows
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A Brush With Shadows

Written by Anna Lee Huber

Narrated by Heather Wilds

Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

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July 1831. It's been fifteen years since Sebastian Gage has set foot in Langstone Manor. Though he has shared little with his wife, Lady Kiera Darby, about his past, she knows that he planned never to return to the place of so many unhappy childhood memories. But when an urgent letter from his grandfather reaches them in Dublin, Ireland, and begs Gage to visit, Kiera convinces him to go.

All is not well at Langstone Manor. Gage's grandfather, the Viscount Tavistock, is gravely ill, and Gage's cousin Alfred has suddenly vanished. He wandered out into the moors and never returned. The Viscount is convinced someone or something other than the natural hazards of the moors is to blame for Alfred's disappearance. And when Alfred's brother Rory goes missing, Kiera and Gage must concede he may be right. Now, they must face the ghosts of Gage's past, discover the truth behind the local superstitions, and see beyond the tricks being played by their very own eyes to expose what has happened to Gage's family before the moors claim yet another victim . . .
LanguageEnglish
Release dateApr 24, 2018
ISBN9781541477902
A Brush With Shadows
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Anna Lee Huber

Anna Lee Huber is the Daphne award–winning author of the national bestselling Lady Darby Mysteries and the Verity Kent Mysteries. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Lipscomb University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she majored in music and minored in psychology. She currently resides with her family and is hard at work on her next novel.

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Excellent! I chased every red herring in the book. Excellent book in a very strong series.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I feel transported back in time reading her books. Love the plots as well
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I'm never on the edge of my seat with these mysteries, but I am curious to see how things play out, and I am quite attached to the characters.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Sebastian Gage and Lady Kiera are called back to the family home, Langstone Manor. Cousin Alfred is missing and someone is taking the family curse to heart. There are lots of family secrets and history to be unraveled to solve this one.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Gage and Keira return to his childhood home because his grandfather is gravely ill and has sent for them through Gage’s father. Sebastian’s cousin, Alfred and heir apparent, is missing and believed to have wandered out onto the moors and possibly met with harm. Rory the younger brother believes that there’s a curse been placed on Alfred by a woman who he believes practices witchcraft near the village. There’s poisonings and attacks on the couple and Rory then goes missing before Gage and Keira solve the case and Gage deals with his unhappy childhood memories.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    Number 6 in the Lady Darby mystery series finds Kiera and Sebastian Gage called back from an inquiry in Ireland to his maternal grandfather's Langstone Manor. Sebastian's cousin Alfred, the presumptive heir of the estate headed out on the moor one evening and hasn't been heard from since. Has the cousin gone off on a walkabout or has foul play lent a hand in his disappearance? Gage is visibly unsettled as he departed Langstone Manor 15 years prior in a fit of rage following his mother's funeral. Before they find out what happened to Alfred, cousin #2 also disappears upon the moor. Are the Pixie's playing games or is there some other horrible devilment afoot?As ever, Ms. Huber has done her geographical and historical homework, weaving true details of the age into her story. She writes deftly and exquisitely, noting subtle nuances to things seen and heard. If good historical fiction with a wee bit of romanticism added for good measure appeals, then this series is certainly one you would enjoy.Synopsis (from book's back cover):Sebastian Gage returns home to battle the ghosts of his past and prevent them from destroying his future with Kiera in the latest exciting installment in this national bestselling series.July 1831. It's been fifteen years since Sebastian Gage has set foot in Langstone Manor. Though he has shared little with his wife, Lady Kiera Darby, about his past, she knows that he planned never to return to the place of so many unhappy childhood memories. But when an urgent letter from his grandfather reaches them in Dublin, Ireland, and begs Gage to visit, Kiera convinces him to go.All is not well at Langstone Manor. Gage's grandfather, the Viscount Tavistock, is gravely ill, and Gage's cousin Alfred has suddenly vanished. He wandered out into the moors and never returned. The Viscount is convinced someone or something other than the natural hazards of the moors is to blame for Alfred's disappearance. And when Alfred's brother Rory goes missing, Kiera and Gage must concede he may be right. Now, they must face the ghosts of Gage's past, discover the truth behind the local superstitions, and see beyond the tricks being played by their very own eyes to expose what has happened to Gage's family before the moors claim yet another victim...
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Kiera and Gage's current case takes them to Gage's childhood home in Dartmoor. He has been summoned by his grandfather because his cousin Alfred is missing. Gage's childhood was not a happy one. He was tormented by his cousins and his aunt because he was blamed for his mother's marriage. She married down by choosing a simple mister who was a Navy Captain. His mother also suffered from some illness that affected her life and sent her back to the home she ran away from when she married. Gage, even as a small child, felt that he had to be her protector. He hasn't been back since he was eighteen and his mother died of poison administered by her maid. They arrive to find that most things are the same. His aunt still resents him and his cousin Rory has mixed feelings about him. Just about the only one who welcomes him is Hammett who is the majordomo and who has been on the estate since his childhood. His grandfather is gravely ill but is still keeping secrets. He thought his grandson ran away to avoid an arranged marriage but he's been gone too long. Kiera and Gage investigate despite the fact that Gage really dislikes his cousin Alfred who tormented him when he was a child and has grown into a thoughtless, vain adult. They have some clues to follow. Could it be the Swing who are protesting the use of farm equipment that lower the need for farm workers? Could it be a family curse that seems to have been plaguing the family for generations? Could Alfred have run afoul with the father or brother of one of the young women he despoiled?I enjoyed the setting of this story. The moors of Dartmoor really came to life. I like that Kiera and Gage are getting closer as Gage is gradually giving up some of the secrets of his past that he has been clinging to since his difficult childhood. I thought the mystery was well done and not overpowered by the politics. I liked the way Kiera protects Gage and that she isn't above a spot of blackmail to make his life easier.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    It is always a pleasure when a series improves and grows as it goes on. The Lady Darby mysteries are such a series. The characters and important relationships continue to grow and draw the reader in. I finished this book feeling that I can't wait until the next installment of the series.

    Kiera and Gage are asked to help investigate the disappearance of one of Gage's cousins. Although previous books have probed Gage's thorny relationship with his father, this time the concentration is on his mother's dysfunctional family. The plot takes a number of interesting twists, and there were times when I thought I had a good idea what had happened and who the villain was, only to realize that I was wrong. As captivating as the plot is, so much of this story is character driven. The growing relationship between Kiera and Gage feels so true to life. I also enjoyed the development of the characters Bree and Anderley, Kiera's maid and Gage's valet, respectively, as they take a role in the investigation.

    The ending is bittersweet, but satisfying. I look forward to seeing where this series goes next.
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    I'll put it out there: the recent books don't have the edginess that the first few books had, and this one had Gage's tragic past laid somewhat thickly on the ground, but I still thoroughly enjoy them. I can imagine once you marry off your protagonist it becomes difficult to defy conventions quite so easily; some tropes become unavoidable. Still, the characters continue to please, and Huber did fitting justice to the Dartmoor moors; Gage's tragi-angst wasn't the only thing thick on the ground: thick fog, heavy mist, unrelenting rain, a formidable dark, gloomy manor, and a hint of the supernatural - the moors wouldn't be the moors without them and they were all here in spades. The mystery was pretty darn good too. Was a crime committed? Is the heir playing his usual games? Why is everybody hiding everything? In the end, crimes were definitely committed and while the murderer came out of nowhere for me, in spite of the name occurring to me in relation to a tangential plot element, I don't feel like it was a cheat on the part of the author. I can't say she necessarily played fair in the strictest sense of the word, but I don't feel like she pulled any rabbits out her hat either. I'm a fan, and I'll eagerly buy her next one.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Mysterious landscapes! Pasts and present collide!What a dynamic duo! Sebastian Gage and his wife, Lady Kiera Darby. As they move forward in their life together Sebastian is called back to the family estate, Langstone Manor, deep in the landscape of Dartmoor. His father is still his supercilious self, as we see from his letters.We learn the story of Gage's upbringing. We meet his truculent and now deathly ill grandfather, the Viscount Tavistock. We come to know about his cousins Alfred and Roland Trevelyan. We are confronted by his aunt the Dowager Baroness Langstone, a darkly forbidding woman with a tongue of ice and a spine of unforgiving steel.We also touch upon Gage's mother, a point of great pain for him.The dark past of the family is exposed, the disappearance of the heir Alfred is urgently addressed by Gage and the mysteries of the past are opened up like festering sores.A read that draws you deeper into Sebastian Gage's life and consequently Kiera's life. A read that doesn't fail to please!A NetGalley ARC