the end of temperance dare by wendy webb

But there’s little chance for romance, as Norrie and her guests become spooked by increasingly menacing occurrences that seem somehow linked to the deaths at Cliffside decades earlier of philanthropist Chester Dare and his daughters Chamomile and Temperance. Soon sparks unexpectedly fly between Norrie and both Nathan Davidson, the curiously old-school physician living on the grounds, and one of the visiting fellows, dashing nature photographer Richard Banks. Then, within hours of her arrival, tragedy strikes-and she’s about to discover that she has every reason to be terrified. Webb lives in Minneapolis with her family.Former reporter Eleanor “Norrie” Harper, the narrator of this solid supernatural thriller from Webb ( The Vanishing), can’t fathom her feelings of dread before starting a dream job-becoming director of Cliffside Manor, the storied one-time TB sanatorium, once owned by the wealthy Dare family, now turned into a retreat for artists and writers on the shore of Lake Superior. The Haunting of Brynn Wilder also hit Number One on the Amazon bestseller list. Daughters of the Lake, hit Number One on the Amazon bestseller list and was published in 2018. The End of Temperance Dare, won the Minnesota Book Award for Genre Fiction in 2017 and has been optioned for film and television. The book was on the Indie Bestseller List for six weeks. Her second novel, The Fate of Mercy Alban, depicts the uncovering of a hidden family scandal.

Webb's first novel, The Tale of Halcyon Crane, is a modern ghost story that won the Minnesota Book Award for fiction in 2011. She was the editor-in-chief of a lifestyle monthly, Duluth Superior Magazine, until the publication closed in 2014. A career journalist, Webb has also written for the Huffington Post and USA Today The Economist and countless other publications. Writing career Īfter returning to Minnesota, Webb got her first writing job with a Minneapolis-based weekly arts and entertainment newsletter, City Pages. with a congressman, and later with a Minnesota senator.

Upon returning to the United States, she got an internship in Washington, D.C. Immediately after graduation, she lived in France with two of her friends. She attended the University of Minnesota, where she graduated with a major in political science and minors in French and history. After reading that book, she knew from that point on that she was destined to be an author. When Webb was in grade school, the school librarian encouraged her to read A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle. Louis Park, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis.

Her books have received several awards, including the Minnesota Book Award for fiction in 20.

The end of temperance dare by wendy webb