Dark Lake
Clare Revell
Pelican Ventures LLC, September 2018
Inspirational romantic suspense, 320 pp
$5.99 Ebook; $15.99 paperback
Also available on Audible
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About the Book
Archaeologist Dr. Lou Fitzgerald is used to unexpected
happenings, and they don't usually faze her. After surviving a childhood
disability, and dealing with an unfair boss, Lou has learned the art of rolling
with the punches. But when she arrives at Dark Lake, what was supposed to be a
simple archaeological dig is beyond even her wildest imaginations. Landowner
Evan Close has his own reasons for keeping the secrets of Dark Lake, and this
attractive interloper is a menace. Her precious dig threatens to bring his
house of cards tumbling down around him, and he feels helpless to stop it. It
soon becomes apparent there are dark forces at work, and Lou's simple
assignment turns into a mystery. Solving that mystery comes with a steep price.
My Review
Dark Lake has many eerie layers in name and back story.
While Dr. Louise Fitgerald is a renowned archaeologist, she is also strangely
vulnerable to the bizarre whimsies of the power-drunk director of the private
organization she works for. He constantly pulls the rug out from under her and
threatens her and yanks the privileges of name recognition that goes along with
her discoveries. He pays well, but seriously, why is she working for this
dangerous jerk? Could it be that her self-confidence is in shambles due to the
disfigurement she deals with, yet tries to keep quiet?
“Rolling with the punches” has come to the last straw for
Dr. Lou as she is shifted from a different archeological site and job just as
she proved a long-held and worked-for premise on an important dig to a relatively
recent site submerged when a dam was built a century earlier. She’s to dive and
check over the remains of the village. But it’s not just the creepy fog that’s
all wrong in Dark Lake. The property owner, the mysterious Evan Close who
employs a body guard, has enigmas Dr. Lou longs to explore. The two hit it off
right away and sparks fly as they’re drawn together through a mutual need to
survive the secrets of Dark Lake.
Told through alternating points of view, the suspense builds
wonderfully. The mutual tension works well, though I did have a giggle at
Colonel Dad reprimanding two thirty-somethings to stay pure until marriage or
he’d hand out knuckle sandwiches. Faith-based romance is nice and clean yet
real without being preachy and spinsterish.
About the Author
Clare is a British author. She
lives in a small town just outside Reading, England with her husband, whom she
married in 1992, their three children, and unfriendly mini-panther, aka Tilly
the black cat. They have recently been joined by Hedwig and Sirius the guinea
pigs. Clare is half English and half Welsh, which makes watching rugby
interesting at times as it doesn’t matter who wins. Writing from an early
childhood and encouraged by her teachers, she graduated from rewriting fairy
stories through fan fiction to using her own original characters and enjoys
writing an eclectic mix of romance, crime fiction and children's stories. When
she's not writing, she can be found reading, crocheting or doing the many piles
of laundry the occupants of her house manage to make.
Her books are based in the UK, with a couple of exceptions, thus, although the spelling may be American in some of them, the books contain British language and terminology and the more recent ones are written in UK English.
The first draft of every novel is hand written.
She has been a Christian for more than half her life. She goes to Carey Baptist where she is one of four registrars. She can be found at:
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