The Curse of Misty Wayfair by Jaime Jo Wright

Left at an orphanage as a child, Thea Reed vowed to find her mother someday. Now grown, her search takes her to Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin, in 1908. When clues lead her to a mental asylum, Thea uses her experience as a post-mortem photographer to gain access and assist groundskeeper Simeon Coyle in photographing the patients and uncovering the secrets within. However, she never expected her personal quest would reawaken the legend of Misty Wayfair, a murdered woman who allegedly haunts the area and whose appearance portends death. 

A century later, Heidi Lane receives a troubling letter from her mother--who is battling dementia--compelling her to travel to Pleasant Valley for answers to her own questions of identity. When she catches sight of a ghostly woman who haunts the asylum ruins in the woods, the long-standing story of Misty Wayfair returns--and with it, Heidi's fear for her own life.

As two women across time seek answers about their identities and heritage, can they overcome the threat of the mysterious curse that has them inextricably intertwined?

The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond Author Interview and Promo and Book Excerpt

About The Reckoning at Gossamer Pond:

For over a century, the town of Gossamer Grove has thrived on its
charm and Midwestern
values, but Annalise Forsythe knows painful secrets, including her
own, hover just beneath the pleasant facade. When a man is found d
ead in his run-down trailer home,
Annalise inherits the trailer, along with the pictures, vintage
obituaries, and old
revival posters covering its walls. As she sorts through the
collection, she's wholly
unprepared for the ramifications of the dark and deadly secrets she'll
uncover.

A century earlier, Gossamer Grove has been stirred into chaos by the
arrival of
controversial and charismatic twin revivalists. The chaos takes a
murderous turn
when Libby Sheffield, working at her father's newspaper, receives
an obituary for
a reputable church deacon hours before his death. As she works with
the deacon's son
to unravel the mystery behind the crime, it becomes undeniably clear
that a reckoning
has come to town—but it isn't until another obituary arrives that they
realize the true
depths of the danger they've waded into.

Two women, separated by a hundred years, must uncover the
within the
borders of their own town before it's too late and they lose their
future—or their
very souls.