This book has a very mild fantasy element. Pippin is a young woman who has lost all her family except her twin brother. The two siblings come back to their family home and start renovating it after their grandmother passes away.

Once they get back to the small fishermen’s town their whole family lived in, secrets and less-known facts start to emerge, such as the fact that their father did not actually leave them 20 years ago, there seems to be a curse on the family and Pippin might have an ability to find out certain facts using books.

The book starts slowly and it is a bit difficult to get absorbed at first, but catches on. Since this is a series, I suspect things can get more interesting in the follow-up books, but it is a readable fantasy-mystery.