First I would like to thank netgalley and this author for giving me her advanced arc book to read before it went for sale on November 30. This book is called Dunmoor and it was an excellent read.

If you like historical thriller mystery with a hint of romance books this is for you.

In 1818 Lady Helena winters has not seen her husband in over a year not since he disappeared without a trace.. torn between finding a new purpose in her life to waiting for him to return she travels to the estate of Dunmoor with her father for a fundraising hall. Although the estate was once her husbands ancestoral home is has recently been purchased by a gentleman named Luke Lennox who is trying to make a hospital.
As her father stays at the estate he begins to become very gravely Ill with pneumonia. They call in a doctor and the doctor says he’s very very sick, her father starts to tell her that he sees children in the home and tree monster figures in the middle of the room at night. The dr tells her that her father is just seeing things it’s part of the illness and has to take medication. There is something wicked in Dunmoor house..

Helena begins to see the same thing questioning if her father is telling the truth, as time passes she finds ledgers from her husband who disappeared things he wrote in a diary about his sister like having An affair with her and then seeing an abomination in the house there is something wicked in the house.

Helena is with a heavy heart feeling a loss of her husband that she never knew him really she felt hurt and wandered the evils that run in the house.

As time passes she sees tree figure monsters, children as you find out more in the story basically towards the ending in the story there was men in black robes that go on a hunt they find children in town and they keep them in the house they poison torture them turn them into slaves and do strange rituals, then they send them to the forbidden woods and hunt them like rabbits. They also feed the things in the forest the giant tree creatures— they do it for years and years, they made a pact with the devil to live forever in order to turn the victims into trees.

Towards the end she goes with Luke Lennox to burn down the estate. And He proposes to her and she is in love with him as well, Then at the end of the book you find out that her other husband is very much alive by the letter and there will be a sequel which I cannot wait to read!

Lady Helena's husband has been missing for over a year and has left her with unanswered questions and fodder for gossip and scandal among English polite society. So when Helena's father suggest that they travel to Dunmoor House for a fundraising ball in an effort to help her escape her troubles, she quickly packs her bags. Here she meets the new owner of Dunmoor House, Luke Lennox. Luke has purchased Dunmoor house to establish an orphanage.
But Dunmoor isn't just your typical English manor house. It's riddled with a macabre history and a supposed curse. When things start going bump into the night and endangering the children, guests, and residents of Dunmoor House it's up to Luke and Helena to unsolve Dunmoor's mysteries before it's too late.
This was a gripping and eerie scary story that definitely gave me the chills and kept me up reading into the wee hours. The author does a beautiful job of creating an atmosphere that had me sitting on the edge of my seat, paranoid of every little noise and shadow that would appear in my room. The author painted such a vivid and creepy setting that I could feel it sucking me into it's nightmare. This is a definite must read if you love a good ghost story.
Many thank yous to St. Martin's press and NetGalley for advanced copy of this title for review