Blog Tour: The Curse of Moonseed Manor – D. Lieber

A haunted hotel. A skeptical photographer. A deadly curse that could cost her everything.
Wren Mabry’s life is a disaster. Her last few years have been rife with tragedy and hardship. So when she’s offered a job at Moonseed Manor, a Gothic revival mansion that’s never welcomed visitors, it
seems suspicious. Even so, this is her chance to finally turn her life around.
The gloom that hangs over Moonseed Manor is enhanced by its cold yet alluring owner, Mr. William Courtland Bennings. And the spooky tales of the flirtatious and sexy caretaker, Watt, play up that feeling.
Even though Wren doesn’t believe in ghosts or curses, she’s always had a flair for the darker side.
And when she finds a handwritten book of poetry filled with longing, terror, and ghostly revenge, it reawakens her very soul—or rather the unknown poet does.
Love, death, secrets, and lies await in this gothic romance.

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D. Lieber has a wanderlust that would make a butterfly envious. When she isn’t planning her next physical adventure, she’s recklessly jumping from one fictional world to another. Her love of reading led her to earn a Bachelor’s in English from Wright State University.
Beyond her skeptic and slightly pessimistic mind, Lieber wants to believe. She has been many places—from Canada to England, France to Italy, Germany to Russia—believing that a better world
comes from putting a face on “other.” She is a romantic idealist at heart, always fighting to keep her feet on the ground and her head in the clouds.
Lieber lives in Wisconsin with her husband (John) and cats (Yin and Nox).

My thoughts: as someone figuring out their next life move, I completely empathised with Wren, her dad died, her mum has basically turned into a different, and not very nice, person, she’s juggling two jobs, struggling to get by and so the opportunity of a live in, well paid photography job is one she jumps at.

But it’s at a slightly sinister, supposedly haunted manor on an island in the middle of Lake Ontario, in upstate New York, further from her sister and friends. She takes the offer anyway, maybe it’ll be a short term thing but worth it.

Meeting the other employees, and her new boss, calms her worries, they all seem pretty ok, even if Mr Bennings is a bit strange. Flirty handyman/gardener Watt does his best to get her into trouble and himself into her knickers, but Wren keeps him at bay. Besides she’s come to realise her employer is the most haunted thing on the island.

Helping Corey (as Mr Bennings likes to be called) makes Wren happy, he’s been struggling alone for so long, if she can rescue him from the family curse, perhaps they can be together. But when things go wrong, will their newly found love last?

Sweet and spooky, this is a perfect seasonal read, with a protagonist you can root for.

*I was kindly gifted a copy of this book in exchange for taking part in the blog tour but all opinions remain my own.