Review: Family mystery at its finist!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 06 9, 2014
The Dead Tree4.5 starsThis was a great read, I could not put the book down until I had finished it! This was a very well written story and an enjoyable read. I hope that there will be more to the story. I really came to like the characters and can see more books to continue on with. There was no cliffhanger so do not worry about thatThis story is about Ariel Fountain a new graduate with a degree in organic horticulture.  Ariel has just broke up with her boyfriend whom she caught cheating with her  best friend and her roommate at the same time. Perfect timing to find out the jerk he was, she was to move in and start a life with her boyfriend… but not after this happened!On the first day of her new job she gets a certified letter from an attorney in Missouri. The next day she calls this attorney and finds out that she is the  beneficiary of her great aunt Blythe Fountain’s estate and that she needs to come to Missouri to sign all the paper work involved.Once she gets to Missouri and talks to the attorney, she finds out that she is now very wealthy. She checks out the house that was left to her and decides what the hell, I have nothing to go back to California for might as well stay here and start my own organic garden. She hires a local to help move some rocks and to build a greenhouse for her. She also finds a number of a woman that was once the housekeeper to her aunt. She calls her and asks her to come and work for her.Ariel had not seen her Aunt since she was a little girl and did not know much about her.  But with the help of the maid she finds out that not only had her aunt published many books, she also had diaries from her life there in the house. She began reading the diaries and uncovered some mysterious things that had happened over 80 years ago. Ariel is now on a mission to uncover these mysteries and the possibility of finding love again.