NEW REVIEW: The Woman by the Lake by Kristen Ashley

OUR REVIEW:

Everyone knows that when Kristen Ashley comes out with a new novel, we read it. No questions asked, we grab it and start because we know, with rare exception, that we will pick it up and love it. In the Misted Pines series, we cannot seem to escape the psychopaths and The Woman by the Lake definitely shows us that. In this novel we have a new transplant, Nadia, living next door to the only other person who lives on the lake, Doc Riggs. Their first two meetings don't go very well, and honestly, he kinda came off as a douchebag. But as we all know KA will do, she shows us that even someone who comes off like that can be so much more than that. In the case of Doc Riggs, as soon as he finds out who Nadia is (member of an uber wealthy family) and why she's there (to recover from the vicious murder of her mother), he quickly gets his shit together and becomes the good guy he had the potential to be. Now could we blame Nadia for not really caring for him at first? After his initial smug/annoying behavior? No. But, as he steps up to take care of her and she learns more about why the cute cabin she's renting is really never rented, she relents and becomes fast friends with him. And of course, that friendship quickly becomes more, just as the weirdness on the island amps up.

The Woman by the Lake may be the eeriest yet of this series. Some of the things that happened while she was staying there were truly creepy and amped up the suspense of who was behind all of the things happening. As you should expect, I enjoyed this new novel by KA and am once again looking forward to what she releases next.

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SYNOPSIS:

Nadia Williams needs somewhere peaceful to sort through her grief after her mother is brutally murdered. She finds a cozy cabin at the side of a tranquil lake in the quaint town of Misted Pines in the Pacific Northwest.

The minute she arrives, she knows it’s perfect.

The very night of her arrival, however, someone—or something—is scratching at her window.

The next morning, she meets her one and only neighbor, Doc Riggs. He’s a rough, good-time guy who rubs Nadia wrong immediately. They clash, and neither of them are happy to be sharing their lake.

But soon, Nadia learns the lore around her cabin, and how the townsfolk are certain it’s haunted by the ghost of the man who was murdered there fifteen years before.

Riggs and Nadia are suddenly thrown into a tangled web of history, betrayal, grief, secrets, with only one thing certain.

Someone—or something—wants them off that lake.