Dex…is quite unlike anything I have come across before. It is there she has a chance encounter with Declan (Dex) Foray, an amateur ghost hunter who she bumps into exploring a boarded up Lighthouse on her uncle’s land. Wanting to get away from it all for a few days, she joins her family on a trip to see her uncle and twin cousins on the Oregon coast. She was quick to believe her ‘episodes’ in the past were due to her excesses but she cannot explain why she is being plagued now. Perry was a troubled teen, dabbling in drink and drugs. See Perry has been having these strange dreams, nightmares really, that seem to be spilling over into her waking hours. Sounds pretty much like any twenty-two year old woman right? Wrong. Perry has found herself working in a dead end job after graduating from college and life appears to be passing her by. She comes with her own set of insecurities believing herself to be not tall, thin or pretty enough (especially when comparing herself to her ex-model mother and fashionista younger sister Ada). Perry Palomino is the narrator of the book and I can honestly say I have never related to a main character quite as much as I did Perry. Ok…deep breath…I have had this book sitting on my kindle for months and to be honest I am now kicking myself about why I haven’t read it sooner. Darkhouse totally sucked me in and I cannot wait to read the rest of the books in the series (which I instantly went and purchased once I had finished this). Her uncle’s haunted lighthouse provides the perfect catalyst and backdrop for a mystery that unravels the threads of Perry’s fragile sanity and causes her to fall for a man, who, like the most dangerous of ghosts, may not be all that he seems. Even though the show’s budget is non-existent and Dex himself is a maddening enigma, Perry is instantly drawn into a world that both threatens her life and seduces her with a sense of importance.

Luckily for her, that all comes in handy when she stumbles across Dex Foray, an eccentric producer for an upcoming webcast on ghost hunters. Though she’s been dealing with a quarter-life crisis and post-college syndrome like any other twenty-something, she’s still not what you would call “ordinary.” For one thing, there’s her past which she likes to pretend never happened, and then there’s the fact that she sees ghosts.

There’s always been something a bit off about Perry Palomino. Published by Metal Blonde Books on May 12th 2011Įnter the world of the highly-acclaimed Experiment in Terror Series by visiting.the Darkhouse. This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence.

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