Review: Immortal Eclipse – Sherry Soule

MYSTERY, MURDER, and MANOLO BLAHNIK….

A devoted fashionata and practical New Yorker, Skylar Blackwell doesn’t believe in the supernatural—until she inherits Summerwind Mansion. . . .
When her uncle is brutally murdered, and the cops seem uninterested in following up the case, Skylar journeys to California to seek answers. Her search for clues is soon overshadowed by haunting nightmares of a young woman also murdered in the house.

Now the inhabitants of Summerwind are mysteriously dying, leaving no evidence as to how or why, and Skylar finds herself in a deadly race against time to expose the killer—before they strike again.

Armed with only wit and Pradas, Skylar begins questioning the servants, but the growing list of suspects includes the sexy and brooding caretaker, Dorian Delacroix, a man desperately trying to forget his tragic past. And a major distraction for Skylar.

Determined to play detective—instead of the fashion police—and unravel the dark history of the mansion, Skylar is plunged into an otherworldly mystery that not even she can explain away. As the boundaries between reality and dreams blur, Skylar’s greatest challenge is to stay alive long enough to learn the truth.

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Release Date:  April 30, 2013
Publisher:  Disenchanted Publishing
Source:  Provided by Author
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Reviewer’s Thoughts

I wasn’t sure what I was going to get when I started this book.  The premise, a fashion photographer going to California to figure out just what happened with her uncle that resulted in his death, I thought it was going to be interested.  There were so many different directions this could take and I was interested in seeing where the author took the story.  But the more I read it, the more I started envisioning a certain TV show on the CW.

Skylar Blackwell may hear weird noises or sense certain things, but she never believed her grandmother’s explanation of have a sixth sense.  That is until she visit the Summerwind estate she inherits from her uncle.  Once there, she’s face to face with cold spot, unexplained black moths, seeing girls in windows who aren’t there…not to mention the strange staff at the house.  But the more she learns about the estate the more she knows something very strange is going on at Summerwind.  She’s bound to get to the bottom of everything, especially since she’s convinced it had something to do with her uncle’s death.

I liked Skylar.  She was quirky and she had an inner monologue the was like a cross between Stephanie Plum and Cat (from the Night Huntress series).  I got the impression that she wanted to interject some levity into the story, but there were times where that just fell short.  The fashionista part of her could have really made story stand out, especially not wanting to get her precious Manolo Blahniks dirty, but that too didn’t really play into the story as much as I thought it would.  But Skylar had a big heart and it was easy to overlook those short falls when she was trying to befriend the workers in her house or when she was Dorian trying to figure him out.  In the end she was a girl who was just trying to find someone who was going to love her and stick around.  And that is shat saved the story for me.

It was a quick read with a heroine that was enjoyable and, in my opinion, made the story.