Newlyweds Theo and Lily Parker buy a bed-and-breakfast in the coastal town of Cambria. Soon after that, Lily is killed. In this novel of love, redemption, and second chances, Theo learns he can no more bring his beautiful new wife back than he can kill the guilt that's eating his soul or the thing that's haunting his new home.
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Newlyweds Theo and Lily Parker buy a bed-and-breakfast in the coastal town of Cambria. Soon after that, Lily is killed. In this novel of love, redemption, and second chances, Theo learns he can no more bring his beautiful new wife back than he can kill the guilt that's eating his soul or the thing that's haunting his new home.
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Richard Taylor?s novel, ?The Haunting of Cambria? intrigues, amuses and entertains ? then ends with a depth charge in the subconscious that stays with you long after the reading is done. Walking a tightrope between whimsy and disturbing darkness, Taylor is a master storyteller who lets his wounded, sympathetic characters guide you into the dark places where a truly horrifying evil lurks. Starting off in L.A., the book quickly moves to Cambria, an idyllic village on California?s central coast. Theo Parker and his new bride Lily are an immensely likable couple who trade quips and repartee like 1930s urbanites. Their dialogue is one of the great joys of the book and would be enough to make it worth reading ? but that?s just the beginning. I don?t think it?s too much of a spoiler to reveal that Taylor kills Lily off early on. This devastates Theo who undergoes a lengthy hospitalization, then hibernates at Monroe House: a deteriorating wreck of a place that Lily and Theo had hoped to turn into a quaint bed-and-breakfast inn. Grief-stricken and wracked with guilt for causing the accident that took his beautiful Lily?s life, Theo is nursed back to health by Eleanor Glacy, the no-nonsense property manager who has been appointed by the court to watch over the place. Eleanor?s fearlessness and pragmatism serve as an anchor when it becomes apparent that an unspeakably unwholesome presence is also an inhabitant of Monroe House. Is it Lily? Eleanor?s repressed sexuality? The psychic remnants of a long-forgotten murder? As Taylor reminds us, every ghost story is a mystery and ?The Haunting of Cambria? is a terrific one. Loaded with character, humor, sensuality and horror, this book is one hell-of-a ride. It?s a one-sitting kind of book that keeps pulling you back to read ?just one more chapter?. Highly recommended.
