![]() Lolz.) There's also a local legend of a Salem-era witch who was killed on the mansion grounds & cursed the family, etc etc, & Elder Sis keeps sensing both the witch & her dead mother trying to warn her about something treacherous afoot. When the son returns home, Elder Sis is confronted with her passion for the son vs her gratitude to the father-husband, but Younger Sis is doing all she can to prevent her constancy & desperately wants Elder Sis to run away with the son - whom Younger Sis married solely in the hope that he's like his father. The elder is in love with her childhood friend but ends up married to his father instead (long story :P), while the younger sister - still a teenager - is secretly in love with the father. It's a rather sensation-esque melodrama of two sisters. ![]() ![]() Plot-wise, this one is set in 1870s Massachusetts. Her narrators have a salty edge that appeals to me, & their (often) dispassionate reactions to pearl-clutching scenarios are quite endearing. But I'm definitely becoming a fan of Stevenson's style. ![]() A very entertaining pulp the story was worthy of 5 stars, though the final third was rushed compared to the other Stevenson I've read, so I gave it 4 instead. ![]()
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