The House on Black Lake

The House on Black Lake is a contemporary gothic suspense/romance novel by American author Anastasia Blackwell published by Creative Revolution in 2010. This is an intoxicating ride into the underworld of Montreal society, where Gypsies, soothsayers and power elite have fun with mystics and create their own rules. This romantic suspense novel tells us the story of how a woman’s obsession for a man leads her into a web of dark secrets, betrayal and unimaginable fate.
Plot summary
Set in an enclave of summer homes for the power elite in the outskirts Montreal, the story follows world-weary American Alexandra Brighton as she travels with son Samuel to the home of Ruth and Ramey Sandeley on a quest to find resolution to an incident that destroyed her idyllic life. On the night of their arrival the mother and child are rowed under a blood red moon to stay in a dilapidated Victorian set on an island on Black Lake. Alexandra’s night of terror in the mysterious...