The Ghost Breaker: A Novel Based Upon the Play

Warren Jarvis rides home to Kentucky with blood on his mind. His father has been shot, his mother died of grief, and Jim Marcum, the man behind the family feud, will answer for it. But the man who arrives at his childhood home finds more than vengeance waiting in the dark. A telegram sent him running, but nothing could prepare him for the secrets that have festered in his absence, nor for Maria Theresa, a princess with shadows in her own past, whose family's castle holds legends that refuse to stay buried. What begins as a straightforward quest for justice unravels into something stranger: a world where the dead don't rest easy, where old sins reach across generations, and where the line between the living and the vengeance they haunt grows dangerously thin. Goddard, writing from the golden age of pulp adventure, delivers a propulsive tale that blends frontier grit with gothic terror, a man with a gun and a grudge, a woman with a crown and a curse, and a mystery that demands they confront not just their enemies, but the ghosts they've inherited. It's melodrama at its most satisfying, with enough supernatural chill to linger long after the final chapter.