What interested me was she has departed from her usual style and decided to add a supernatural twist. But let me interject that this book can be read with two different views.
Let us start with the main character, Ava Collette. Ava is a promiscuous drunk albeit a very successful food critic and writer. She escapes to a secluded mansion after she has committed a grave sin that she could not face. Hence her drinking intensifies as she rents this haunted mansion in Maine previously owned by a handsome seafaring rake, Capt. Brodie, hence the name of the place aptly named Brodie's Watch.
There are 2 scenarios. One wherein the ladies of the house, who shares the same physical appearance as her, dismiss any romantic relations they have and decide to stay single. They were also known to go every night at the bedroom of late Mr. Brodie and eventually die of old age as single women. Second scenario. Actual crimes. First, the suspicious death of a teenager who died at the mansion during Halloween several years ago and next, the mysterious disappearance of the previous tenant.
Now, Ava Collette's sin- she subconsciously hated her successful doctor sister who met a wonderful man (supposedly) and got married. She ,on the other hand, just screwed several men and ended up always single and unsatisfied. Then one New Years's Eve, she gives a party wherein her sister and her husband come in separate cars just in case her sister is called in for work.She is an emergency doctor. Lucky for her raging libido and secret resentment of her sibling, her sister is called in to work. Hence the moment everyone leaves , she and her brother-in-law have sex . They both realized what they did and are greatly horrified not necessarily for the betrayal but because they actually enjoyed the wild sex. Quickly, they blame their drunkenness for that surging passion they exhibited. Still the husband was so bereft of his deception that he quickly and drunkenly leaves the house. Hence the car accident that kills him.
Miss Judas Iscariot then tries to console her bereaved sister, hoping the husband dies and keep their treachery a secret. Her wish was granted and the cheating bastard dies. She then escapes under the pretense that she needs an isolated place to write her book and escapes into this haunted mansion located, as mentioned earlier, in Maine. However she is still haunted on how she actually enjoyed the sex that she keeps on thinking about it constantly. Then, supposedly, Capt. Brodie's appears and asks her to be his slave so he can make her suffer.Willingly she accepts the challenge and makes him have sex with her while she is tied up and beaten like any regular s and m bondage relationship. She actually enjoys it and awaits this bondage type of sex every night. As though she wanted to be punished for her sins.
Here is the premise on both sides.She actually is being whipped and penetrated by a ghost (She wakes up wet all the time but with no bruises usually related to being held in bondage) or she has completely gone insane and thinks that the beating will purge the sin of her loins out off her body.
Now here comes Mr. Prince Charming, a doctor who is a magnificent painter and the carpenter fixing her house who was always believed to have killed the teen several years ago.Then they find the body of the previous tenant. She eventually has an affair with the doctor but is still entranced by the ghost. She waits for him every night with bated breath. The ghost then appears and brings her to a jury instead of their usual s and m sex. He calls her a whore and demands her to confess her sin. Then she eventually relates the tragic night that she actually enjoyed but which she is ashamed of.
Let us fast forward. She realizes from the doctor's painting that he has been painting the deceased from afar and that he used binoculars. He was doing the same thing with her that's why she always saw that mysterious light in the middle of the night. So, it wasn't really the ghost ?Or was it really the sexy specter of Capt. Brodie? She also found out that the good doctor was also the teen boyfriend of the girl that died several years ago. Then she sees two figures, struggling in the dark after which the doctor comes crashing to his death. She faints. When she wakes up, she sees the carpenter who was wrongly accused of the murders. He said he saved her and called the cops and the ambulance. She was still insistent that Capt. Brodie was there and tried to save her only to have the carpenter deny seeing anyone else at the balcony. Her sister is called and the dutiful sibling drove all the way to Maine to visit evil drunk Ava. Ava eventually tells her sister that her drunkenness has cost so many destroyed lives though she conveniently omits the adultery that also took place. Her poor, unknowing sister hugs her and tells her she will always be there for her little sister. The deceitful tramp!
Time passes, and the book will be formally launched. Her editor insists on visiting the place so that they will have pictures of the mansion included in the book. After pictures where taken Ava looks back and swears she saw Capt. Brodie at the widow before he finally disappears.
I watched Investigative Discovery wherein a mother who thinks she caused her handicapped child's death goes off tangent and visits all S and M and Bondage Sites. She eventually dies because she wanted to be tied up , beaten and choked. Which most scientists would think why Ava imagined this Captain who wanted to be her Master and make her suffer, because with joy comes pain and suffering.Then another probable theory from people who actually sees ghosts like me.Could Capt. Brodie really exist or has she become stark raving mad because of her guilt of actually enjoying the sex she had with her brother - in-law ? I think the did ghost exist because her editor felt a sinister presence choking him when he visited. Then the medium she hired saw a dark presence on camera but it just hovered over her and Ava never left her bed. In her dreams she was always brought to Capt. Brodie's old bedroom wherein he would handcuff and tie her up to the bed. Also in her dreams they would have sex after which he would beat her up. I think its both. There was a ghost hovering over her and protecting her but the S and M dreams are a figment of her imagination because of her guilt. She just wanted to be punished just like the mother in Investigative Discovery.
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