A New Home and an Old Mystery in Clarissa’s Warning

A lottery win gives bank teller Claire Bennett a chance to change her life. She buys an old house on Fuerteventura, imagining a new beginning on the island. In Isobel Blackthorn’s Clarissa’s Warning, the property comes with a mystery that money does not remove.

Buying into an unfamiliar history

Claire settles in an inland village and begins facing questions about her new home, Casa Baraso. Local superstition surrounds the house, turning a renovation opportunity into something harder to understand.

The haunted-house appeal begins with ownership. Claire has chosen the building and invested her hopes in it, so the unsettling stories concern a place she already wants to claim as her own. Leaving the mystery alone may be difficult when she is living inside it.

A warning she chooses to ignore

Her mystic aunt Clarissa has cautioned her about danger, but Claire pays little attention. That choice adds a personal dimension to the uncertainty: she must decide how much weight to give a warning while assessing an unfamiliar place for herself.

The second Canary Islands Mystery may interest readers who like a promising fresh start complicated by a building’s reputation. The premise leaves room for questions about superstition and explanation without establishing that a curse is real or revealing what lies behind Casa Baraso’s secret. Claire’s investment in the house gives those questions immediate consequences.