Prepare to be spellbound. Barbara Frances'
long-awaited third novel, “Shadow's Way,” takes you to the coastal, deep
South, where the past and the present mingle in a gothic tale of insanity, murder, and sexual intrigue.
You'll meet the beautiful Elaine Chauvier, former actress and proprietor of Shadow's Way, her family's antebellum home; the esteemed Archbishop Andre Figurant and his fallen identical twin, Bastien; newly arrived Ophelia and Rudy, here to explore their Chauvier roots and their ties to Shadow's Way; and the mysterious Madame Claudine. Under a veneer of piety and graciousness, i.e., the questions: What is good? What is evil? What is reality?
Lee
Broom
Southern suspense at its finest!
Format:
Kindle Edition
Very intense book! Shadow's Way is a
suspenseful, amazing story that centers around an antebellum home on the Gulf
Coast that is the life's blood of Elaine Chauvier, a woman of aristocracy that
boasts of ties to Robert E. Lee. It's a multi-layered story that seems to be a
history of the house and its inhabitants, who have many secrets and obsessions.
It turns it to be a horror story of a crazy woman who is out to kill anyone who
gets in her way or who tries to take her precious home, Shadow's Way. It's a
story of ghosts and sordid pasts, and a shameful history of the local catholic
church. The people in the town who are related to Elaine or acquaintances are
unaware at first of all the twisted plans and goings-on of the main lady of the
house, but they soon find out when unexpected things start happening. It's a
vivid, startling tale that I highly recommend, because I just couldn't stop
reading this one until the very last word.
Ms. Francis’ novel Shadow’s Way, had me enthralled from page
one, it kept me reading until so late into the night that I used a flashlight
in order not to wake my husband.
I’ve always enjoyed reading gothic tales, but this one went
beyond most that I had read. The synopsis was correct, past and present mingled
and left me on the edge of my seat. Was G – G – Daddy a real paranormal
experience or a figment of Elaine Chauvier’s imagination, which got worse as
she sunk deeper into insanity?
I loved the various characters that Ms. Francis brought into
play as needed to heighten the story. They were well rounded and interconnected
in ways that one has to keep reading to get the full picture.
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