A Flicker in the Dark, by Stacy Willingham

I only got 30 pages in and stopped. Here's why. A typo on page 22. Way too much telling (versus showing). Eg, I don't need any author to tell me that a home is more than bricks & boards. Then again several pages later, the house she (Chloe) bought was waiting to be made into a home. On and on and blah blah blah. And "bouncing off walls" is a cliche, no matter how it's used (the heat of 40 bodies bouncing off walls). 

Published by Minotaur, an imprint of St. Martin's Press. This big Publishing house could afford a GREAT editor. That's what this book needed. First, some developmental editing (yo Ms. Willingham [author], how bout dialing back on the "telling" and minutea?). Then a skilled copyeditor to catch name use and typos. 

I actually bought this book. A used copy but still. I had high hopes based on the Prologue which is the excerpt you're allowed to read on-line. 

Drat.