Supernatural thrillers are my favorite so I was excited to read this. I wasn't disappointed, as its a good read. There are a lot of characters so I had to pay attention, but that wasn't hard as the mystery pulled me in. It has all the elements of a good paranormal, and I hope there are more books to come.

Unfortunately, i was actually unable to read this book and review it. Due to being a new member and not fully understanding how the site worked and a strange period of my life, i never got he chance to read this. I apologise i wasnt able to review this.

I have read many romance books featuring Cape Cod, so it was like visiting an old friend reading this book. I haven't read the first book but I instantly felt connected to the many characters and this is easily read as stand alone. There are some back story between Cass and her sister Zoe and also the history of the house that may have been touched more on in book one but it did not hinder the reading of this book. A huge storm has his the residents of Whale Rock and after it passes and the damaged is ascertained it becomes known that a child has gone missing, not only that, but Cass discovers a body in a dumpster.

Murder and a missing child are the central story lines in this book as well as the mystery of Barnacal Boy - a local story of a young boy was was found washed ashore in the 70's and was yet to be identified. The side story of that jumped from the 60's, 70's, and 80's to the present day, at one point I thought I had that part figured out but I was thrown of kilter with the twists that Loretta Marion threw in there.

Everything connects eventually in the end and made for a great read, I look forward to reading more in this series and going back and reading book one.

The second installment of this series continues to build on the mystery of the paranormal circumstances enveloping the mansion at The Bluffs that protagonist Cassie Mitchell has inherited, saved, and refurbished along with an adjacent rental/studio in the Carriage House. Along with her fiancé Daniel, a former FBI agent, the town dives into prep for the massive storm that canceled their wedding when Cassie discovers a body in the dumpster behind one of the merchants downtown.

Daniel is enlisted in the search for a missing three-year-old, Lucas, as well as gleaning clues regarding the identity of the man in the dumpster. Daniel and she work unofficially with the Whale Rock Police Department, sussing clues and trading information.

This supernatural thriller introduces a fascinating sub-plot beneath the main plot using current and historical timeline background to the mysterious Christopher Savage, a displaced person staying temporarily at the Carriage House. The extra layer adds a depth of complexity to the storyline that interspersed with the frantic search for the boy and investigation into the dumpster body keeps the intensity at high level.

I enjoyed the paranormal aspect of the narrative, her great-grandparents often confusing Cassie with messages she is unable to immediately interpret. The relationship between she and Daniel is painted as an ordinary middle-aged couple and her relationship with estranged sister, Zoe, fitful. The author weaves a fascinating correlation between that of Cassie and her family with that of Christopher and his and gradually more secrets find their way to the surface.

I was given this digital download by the publisher through NetGalley and greatly appreciated the opportunity to read and review. I've enjoyed both books in this series and would welcome the chance to read the third. Although this novel would function quite well as a standalone, you might wish to start with Book 1 to get a full explanation of the recurrent paranormal activities. Recommended for any who enjoy a little supernatural vibe to their mysteries.

Storm of Secrets by Loretta Marion is a wonderful book full of how secrets wreck our lives and those of our loved ones.

A massive storm, a man's body found, a missing toddler, a new man in town, a nun, and a postponed wedding, what else could happen?

Cassie Mitchell
Our sleuth is Cassie Mitchell. She is a local artist and hometown girl that knows most of the townsfolk. Cassie is also a step ahead of the local police in finding clues and figuring out how events happen. Although, Cassie has a bit of help from her ancestral ghosts.

I like Cassie; she tries to help after the storm and with the police investigations. Cassie has a relationship with most of the cops in town, and they give her a bit of leeway and are grateful for deductions but wish that she would stay out of it. We learn about her family dynamics and family history in this book. Let's say that she has quite the cursed family tree.

Mysteries
This book has many moving pieces. There is the body found in the dumpster before the storm, the boy missing, a party house complete with a drug dealer, a town ravaged by a storm, homes, and business without power. That doesn't include the cold case of the young boy who washed ashore years ago. So, lots are going on but moving fast.

Five Stars
I enjoyed Storm of Secrets by Loretta Marion, and therefore I am giving it five stars. If you like paranormal mysteries, then this is the story for you.

I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader Copy from the Great Escapes Book Tours. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.

Thank you for dropping by! I hope you enjoyed this review of Storm of Secrets by Loretta Marion.

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Karen the Baroness

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Another enjoyable book in the Haunted Bluffs mystery series. In this episode a massive storm hit's Cape Cod, with a child missing in the aftermath. The community goes into overdrive to try to find the little boy, and law enforcement is stretched to the limit, especially as local artist Cassie has found a body in a dumpster in town. Cassie and her friends start investigating both incidences, but find the going tough. Who is the stranger in the dumpster? What are the child's family hiding? And just who is the new occupant of Cassie's carriage house really? Added to all the action is the background saga of a woman dying of cancer in Boston, with a chequered history that is slowly revealed. As the storylines come together Cassie unearths some startling truths about the community, her friends and her family.

The community really comes to life in this book. With realistic characters and settings that are easily visualised Loretta Marion has woven another top notch mystery. I found it easy to read, in fact I had trouble putting it down! Recommended to all mystery lovers.

My thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Storm of Secrets
A Haunted Bluffs Mystery
by Loretta Marion
Publisher Crooked Lane Books
Publication date : November 12, 2019
2 ⭐⭐

I really struggled with this book for several reasons. First there is a HUGE amount of characters which made it hard to keep up with and very confusing. Then there was the bouncing back and forth through several decades Going from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and current day. There is also several different cases. I had to get out a notebook just to keep up with it all. By the time I reached the halfway point in the book I had used half of my notebook for notes. There was just way too much going on for one book. There was enough going on to fill up three books. I struggled with the slow pace and it just did not keep my attention. It didn't help that I stayed confused. I have been trying not to keep reading books I am not enjoying. But after all the work I had put into it I was determined to finish it. In the end everything ties together and make sense . Still I did not enjoy the story. I did however love the cover . That is what drew me to the book. The Description sounded so good and I had such high hopes for this book. If there was alot less characters ,less jumping around and not so many cases going on it would have been a better fit for me. Many thanks to the Publisher , the Author , and NetGalley for a ARC copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
All in All this book just was not for me.
#StormOfSecrets #NetGalley

A gripping and entertaining book, poignant and well written.
The cast of characters is well written and interesting, the plot is well crafted and keeps you hooked till the end.
It was a bit hard to get into the plot because there's a high number of characters but once you're hooked you won't put it down.
The mystery is solid and the paranormal element enrich it.
I look forward to read other books in this series.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this ARC, all opinions are mine.

Cassandra Mitchell’s wedding to ex FBI agent Daniel Benjamin had to be postponed at the last minute with a massive storm, christened Chantal, due to hit Whale Rock and The Bluffs, Cassie’s family home she’d inherited. They all knew of the dangers and needed to get everyone evacuated to higher ground before it hit. When Cassie discovered a body, then a small boy, Lucas Kleister went missing with his six-year-old brother Nicholas traumatized and unable to tell anyone what he knew, the local police were put on high alert. The desperate search for Lucas was immediate and ongoing – the aftermath of Chantal’s fury meant a huge cleanup.

In the 1960s there had been another massive storm and days afterwards, the body of a small boy was discovered. He was never identified, and the townsfolk named him Barnacle Boy; he rested in the Mitchell family cemetery near Cassie’s home.

With Daniel helping the WRPD in the search for Lucas as well as a killer, Cassie did some investigating of her own. Could she identify the killer? Would the tragedy that occurred in the 1960s have any link to what was happening in Whale Rock in the present day? And what were Percy and Celeste trying to tell Cassie?

Storm of Secrets is the 2nd in the Haunted Bluffs Mystery series by Loretta Marion and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I haven’t read the 1st but didn’t feel I lost anything by missing it. Storm of Secrets kept me entranced with it difficult to put down when I had to. With excellent characters, plenty of twists and an unexpected conclusion, it was definitely a captivating thriller. Highly recommended.

With thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for my digital ARC to read in exchange for an honest review.

Not the wedding weekend Cassie and Benjamin had planned! A tropical storm is about to hit Whale Rock and much of the town has been evacuated to Cassie's home. But first, Cassie finds a dead body and then a three year old goes missing. This moves back and forth through several decades and several different cases but stick with it and it will all make sense. Throughout the whole thing are the spirits of Cassie's great grandparents, Percy and Celeste, who give her messages (advice of a sort). The paranormal is not too woo-woo but rather adds to the atmospherics. Thanks to netgalley for the ARC. It's a quick entertaining read and while the second in the series, it would also be fine as a standalone.

With a small-time drug dealer dead in a dumpster, a small child missing, and a hurricane on the way, small Whale Rock Village on Cape Cod Bay is waiting on disaster amid a Storm of Secrets.

Cassie’s wedding is scheduled but canceled by the upcoming hurricane. To make the day worse, she finds a dead body in a dumpster. Cassie doesn’t let it get her down. To help people living in low-lying coastal areas, she opens her huge house, Battersea Bluffs, to a multitude of friends, wedding guests, and strangers. She serves them the catered food that was purchased for her now-canceled wedding reception.

With three-year-old Lucas still missing after the storm, the entire village searches for him. Was he kidnapped? Or was he swept out to sea? Is he to have the same fate as the nameless “Barnacle Boy” who washed up dead on the coast fifty years earlier?

There is a lot going on here. It truly is a Storm of Secrets. In addition to the mysteries mentioned above, later in the book Cassie and her family resolve several old issues. Two other families also have secrets that are discovered and unraveled. My favorite part of the novel was the family dynamics that are portrayed. When each family’s secret is exposed, honest and genuine feelings are shown. I did have a concern with so many people introduced during the first several chapters in the book. Luckily, I was reading on a Kindle so I could highlight them in case I needed to know their story later. By the middle of the book, all the different characters were easily sorted in my mind.

With a total of two crimes and three family secrets, this book will appeal to both women’s fiction and mystery readers. The pacing is not as fast as a thriller. Also, the emphasis is on the characters’ actions and emotions more than solving the mysteries. Probably not a good choice for action thriller readers—unless they want to try something different. I enjoyed it a great deal for the excellent characterizations of the main protagonists. 4 stars!

Thanks to Crooked Lane Books and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

After enjoying House of Ashes, I was eager to read this second part in the series.
In Storm of Secrets we have two mysteries and a murder in the midst of a tropical storm.
Times are chaotic at The Buffs, Whale Rock, Cape Cod and I had a hard time placing all the events.
Although the timeline between chapters is clear, it takes until the halfway point of the book for the different events to connect. After that a well rounded story takes the reader to a predictable finale.

Thank you Netgalley and Crooked Lane Books for the ARC.

First my admiration for this cover ! its truly gorgeous.. Very well done to the artist.
I have read the first in series and was thrilled to receive this next in series for review. Thank you to Net Galley and to the publisher. I offer my own review opinions.

In this 2nd in the Haunted Bluffs Mystery) this reader was entranced from the beginning. The protagonist, Cassie, lives in the beautiful Victorian house her great grandparents built on a bluff in Whale Rock. The coastal setting of this house adds to the atmospheric beauty of this book. Cassie must postpone her second wedding as a huge storm head towards Whale Rock. The community members band together to prevent massive damage while evacuating people. The storm hits and a murder has occurred and a child is missing . With these two events many secrets of the small seaside town come out having been buried for years. Cassie feels the presence of her great grandparents and feels they are trying to contact her to warn her about something. The mystery deepens to conclusion as secrets are reveled.

This is a excellent suspenseful read. I loved the setting, the charcters and the mystery surrounding the main charcter. I look forward to further books in this series.

This book was fast paced. Hard to put down. It flowed well and it was very well written. It caught hold of me and had me hooked from the start . I was literally on the edge of my seat reading this book.

There is no option but to postpone Cassandra Mitchell and David Benjamin’s wedding as a vicious storm heads towards Whale Rock. After the storm, the locals deal with a missing three-year old boy and a man’s body that was found abandoned in a dumpster. David, former F.B.I., is assisting the local police as his fiancée, Cassie, a long-time resident of Whale Rock does her best to glean bits of information about the two investigations. Cassie has help from the spirits of her deceased great grandparents, Percy and Celeste Mitchell, who are able to “guide” her. Years ago, a young boy drowned and washed ashore. He was never identified and was interred in the Mitchell family graveyard. Is it too late to find out who he was? I received an advance review copy at no cost and without obligation for an honest review. (by paytonpuppy)

A storm is closing in the Cape Cod and the small town of Whale Rock and everybody is preparing for this natural disaster. But just before the storm hits the land,a small time drugs dealer is found dead in a dumpster and a toddler has gone missing. So the local police force and Daniel Benjamin a retired FBI agent(and groom to be)have their work cut out for them. Meanwhile Cassie Mitchell,a bride whose wedding has been postponed due to the stormy weather,welcomes several local residents and visitors, whose houses are in a danger zone, in her house "The Bluffs" where the ghosts of her great-grandparents have taken up residence .
There is another story of another boy whose body washed up on the shore,some 20 years ago, but who was never identified. It is clear that this story still attracts some attention. There is a mysterious woman who visits his grave,a local writer trying to make a book out of this tragic story and a visitor who also has some keen interest in the unknown boy.
There is yet another storyline going back to the sixties,eighties and present day, about an immigrant Italian family and their tribulations in the US.
The mystery side of the story is not bad but there are so many sidelines and so many things going on ...paternity quests,diaries,ghosts,paintings,pregnancies,illness,beach houses,party guests,lost(or forgotten)lovers,drugs,lost boys both from the past and the present,damaged young men...it is just too much.
Of course,it didn't help that I couldn't connect with the amateur sleuth,Cassie. She is opinionated,judgemental, nosy(ok,that's normal for a sleuth...),not very discreet and even rude sometimes.
But the setting is great,a small town of the Cape Cod coast,flooded by merry vacationers in the summer and pretty restful in the winter. And that is a great start full of promises.

This is the 2nd book in the Haunted Bluffs Mystery series. I had read the first one and enjoyed it, but this one disappointed me. I had a hard time getting into the story. A huge storm knocks out the power the weekend of Cassandra Mitchell and Daniel Benjamin's wedding. A three old goes missing and a drug dealers body is found in a dumpster. Cassie receives messages from her great-grandparents, which is to give the plot a paranormal feel. The story jumps time spans which at times confused me.. Overall, the book was OK.

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC in return for an unbiased review.

This book had many elements and the author was able to weave them together for an enjoyable read. I especially enjoyed the messages from the spirits.
Many thanks to Crooked Lane Books and to NetGalley for providing me with a galley in exchange for my honest opinion.

First off I’d like to Thank Netgalley and Crooked Lane Books for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
The setting I quite enjoyed - a ghost story during a storm, can certainly set the mood. Good story, sad at times. 3.5 stars for me, rounded up to 4

This book was given to me at no cost by the publisher and Net Galley in return for an unbiased review.
Storm of Secrets is the 2nd book in the Haunted Bluffs series. I enjoyed this book and the first book in the series. This series involves ghosts, but they are not a dominant factor outside of the messages they send to the protagonist. The story is set in a seaside town and it takes place during a powerful storm. It is exciting because there is the drama of the storm and its destruction, a murder, and a missing child. There is a second plotline that runs through the book about a child that was taken from his mother many years earlier. All of the plotlines come together nicely at the end. The historical pieces lead to revelations about the present. Recommended.