Peasreads: The Witches of Bone Hill

 This book has so many great elements.

An old haunted Mansion.

Family secrets to uncover.

Discovering that family bonds can run deep, and sometimes you can't escape them.

An inheritance that comes with stipulations.

Cordelia, the main character struggles with her newfound powers and how to harness them.

Eustace, her sister. A side character but even so a strong one.

Ghosts.

An origin story of how the Bone family came to be and their powers.

Forgiveness.

A second chance at life.

Familiars.  

All of the above make this book, well magical. 

Cordelia has run all her life. Her mom had her and her sister constantly moving and running from... something. When she has the chance to build a "normal" life with her husband, she dives in head first. She builds a successful business. Basically has the white picket fence. Along with her husband's mistress, that is. He takes off with the mistress, all of their funds, and even clients from the business. Cordelia is left with his debt, and the mob on her tail for something her soon-to-be ex did. She is the main character. Desperate to get out from under debt and the mob that wants payment- in some form or another she receives a call from her estranged sister saying that they have just inherited a family home. From the family that they never met. Family their mom never wanted them to meet. No matter, Cordelia hops on a plane so she can quickly put whatever house is waiting on the other end of the line up for sale to start to get her life back in order.

The house of course is a masion. Cordelia sees dollar signs. The lawyer who has managed the family trust lays out the stipulations that must be met before the sisters can inherit the mansion and the fortune.

The story is suspenseful in a creepy, not jump-out-of-your-seat scary way. It is exciting and interesting. Though a slow burn. 

What I didn't like were all the other elements that just bogged down the story. The mob. Like Cordelia's life wasn't already in shambles. The mob side story didn't even interest me. It was just more to sort through to get to the real story. The "sexy, tattooed groundskeeper with a shrouded past". This part of the story just wasn't really believable, the characters were not believable. The groundskeeper did about as much as the mob did for me as far as adding depth and interest to the story. 

Still, this was an entertaining read. The author Ava Morgyn wove so many magical elements together beautifully. 

Trigger warning: death, murder, animal cruelty, suicide.

Description from the publisher

Ava Morgyn's The Witches of Bone Hill is a spellbinding, romantic novel about family secrets and two young women who discover they're Nordic witches.

Cordelia Bone's meticulously crafted life and career in Dallas are crashing down around her thanks to a philandering husband with criminal debts. When her older, carefree sister, Eustace—a cannabis grower in Boulder—calls to inform her that the great aunt they never met has died and they must travel to a small town in Connecticut to deal with the estate, she sees an opportunity to unload the house and save herself.

But once there, the sisters learn they are getting much more than they bargained for. The Victorian mansion they stand to inherit is bound in a dynasty trust controlled by their late aunt's aging attorney, who insists they retain and inhabit the house but keeps them in the dark about the peculiar rituals of their ancestors. Not to mention a sexy, tattooed groundskeeper with a shrouded past who refuses to leave the carriage house and a crypt full of dead relatives looming at the property line.

As both women grapple with their current predicament, they come face to face with a haunting family secret, the truth of what happened to their mother, and the enemy that's been stalking them from the shadows for generations. In a twisting torrent of terror and blood, the sisters must uncover the power within them to heal their fractured relationship, reverse their mysteriously declining health, and claim the lineage they wanted to escape but now must embrace if they are to survive at Bone Hill.

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