Someone to Love by Jude Deveraux [Review]

Someone to Love (Montgomery/Taggert Family #10) by Jude Deveraux
Format: ebook
Source: purchased
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Date read: July 8, 2024

Montgomery/Taggert Family
1. The Black Lyon
2. The Duchess
3. The Temptress
4. The Raider
5. Mountain Laurel
6. Sweet Liar
7. Wishes
8. The Princess
9. Eternity
10. Someone to Love - Paperback | Kindle
11. The Heiress
12. The Awakening
13. The Invitation
14. High Tide
15. A Knight in Shining Armor

Jude Deveraux
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

After three years, Jace Montgomery is still grieving over his fiancée Stacy’s mysterious suicide. He hasn’t been interested in another woman since her passing, and her family still blames him for her death.

While flipping through one of her old paperbacks, Jace discovers a photo of a house stuck between the pages, bearing the cryptic message: “Ours again. Together forever. See you there.” The note was dated the day before her death. Obsessed by the possibility of understanding her suicide, Jace seeks out the property—Priory House, a big brick fortress in Margate, England—and buys it.

It doesn’t take long to learn that the house is haunted by a headstrong and feisty ghost, Ann Stuart, whom he must tangle with if he’s ever to solve the mystery. Ann died under circumstances similar to those of his late fiancée, and he has a hunch that there is a connection between the two. Through his own investigations and with the help of a beautiful foreign correspondent, Jace is forced to reconcile his fiancée’s life and her death.

Thoughts on Someone to Love: I was weirdly nervous about reading Jace's story because Montgomery men love hard and I wasn't sure how things would work out since he'd been so in love with Stacy before her untimely death. That said, I should have (as they say) trusted the process because Jace came to terms with his past and found a way to move forward. Sure, he needed a little nudge from a ghost and a different type of nudge from Nigh, but he got where he needed to be eventually.

So. Jace is in a bad place mentally after Stacy's death. He buys a monstrosity of a house in England in an attempt to try to figure things out and, well, that's where things start to get a little complicated. Because the house comes with a ghost (which Jace was well aware of before purchasing it) and a whole lot of secrets and Jace starts to see parallels between Ann's death and Stacy's death although a whole lot of years separate the two.

Then he meets Nigh and those two DID NOT start out on the best foot. But Jace gets over that and it isn't long before the two are teaming up to work through the scant clues they can dig up from both the distant past and the more recent past as them attempt to figure out the circumstances in both Ann's and Stacy's deaths.

A house full of secrets, ghosts, local legends that have taken on a life of their own, more secrets, a lady who is drawn to the house (and Jace) for reasons of her own, and a man who has to come to terms with the past before he can have a future. MAN, I have fun with these Montgomerys and all their trials and tribulations.