02283cam a2200325 i 4500 1846551046 TxAuBib 20230319120000.0 120724s2013||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2012027376 9781401341930 1401341934 DLC DLC DLC TLC rda TxAuBib rda Webb, Wendy, author., (Wendy K.) The fate of Mercy Alban / Wendy Webb. First edition. New York : Voice. ©2013. 344 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes reading group questions and an interview with the author. "Grace Alban has spent more than twenty years avoiding her childhood home, the stately Alban House on the shores of Lake Superior, for reasons she would rather forget. But when her mother's unexpected death brings Grace and her teenage daughter back, she finds more is haunting the halls and passageways of Alban House than her own personal demons. Long-buried family secrets, a packet of old love letters, and a lost manuscript plunge Grace into a decades-old mystery about a scandalous party at Alban House, when a world-famous author took his own life and Grace's aunt disappeared without a trace. The night has been shrouded in secrecy by the powerful Alban family for all of these years. Her mother intended to tell the truth about that night to a reporter on the very day she died--could it have been murder? Or was she a victim of the supposed Alban curse? Grace soon realizes her family secrets tangle and twist as darkly as the mansion's secret passages. With the help of the disarmingly kind-and attractive-Reverend Matthew Parker, Grace must uncover the truth about her home and its curse before she and her daughter become the next victims."-- P. [4] of cover. 20230319. Single mothers Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1310/2012027376-b.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1310/2012027376-d.html Publisher description