To complicate matters, a bestselling author who specializes in historical mysteries asks to partner with Melanie, offering to assist with the house restoration project in exchange for access to the house’s attic and stashes of old records. The local gossip would have it that she ran off with another man, but her son never believed the story, and his dying wish is for his mother’s reputation to be cleared. She may tell herself it’s because they’re all money pits, but in reality, as a woman who’s spent her whole life seeing and hearing ghosts, these old homes are just too fraught with supernatural encounters for her to ever be able to appreciate them.Īs the book opens, a man she thinks is a potential seller ends up leaving her his beautiful but utterly decrepit home, as well a letter imploring her to find out the truth about his mother’s disappearance over 70 years earlier.

In The House on Tradd Street, main character Melanie is a realtor who specializes in Charleston’s historical homes, although she secretly hates them with a passion.

And while it held my attention, there were a few too many eye-rolling moments for me to feel that it was anything more than just an okay read. This contemporary novel might not have been an obvious choice for me, but since it was my book group’s pick for May, I felt compelled to give it a try. Now, Jack and Melanie must unravel a mystery of passion, heartbreak, and even murder. It turns out Jack’s search has caught the attention of a malevolent ghost.

So he turns the charm on with Melanie, only to discover he’s the smitten one… He has reason to believe that diamonds from the Confederate Treasury are hidden in the house. An old man she recently met has died, leaving her his historic Tradd Street home, complete with housekeeper, dog, and a family of ghosts anxious to tell her their secrets.Įnter Jack Trenholm, a gorgeous writer obsessed with unsolved mysteries. Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts.

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