The Wraith Of Carter's Mill: The Curse of the Carter Women is a series of four short stories in one book that tells the tale of the Carter family. The first story tells of Libby and her brother Jack as young children with their mother, Julia. This story introduces "the dark man" that seems to plague the Carter family. The second story follows Libby as a married woman, and her young daughter Shyanne, as she becomes the next generation to meet the dark man. This time Libby is able to find out more information because her mother Julia has passed away. The third story follows Shyanne and her daughter Melody as the curse of the dark man becomes even worse and Shyanne finds she has the power to help end the curse. The final story goes back to the beginning and tells us how the curse of the dark man began. C. Evenfall gives us a family saga that follows the women of the Carter family.

Although The Wraith of Carter's Mill is subtitled The Curse of the Carter Women, it is actually the head of the original Carter clan, Zeb, that brings about the curse. The power to end the curse flows through the Carter women, although it is not until Shyanne that someone is able to do anything about the curse. C. Evenfall mixes a ghost story, and a story of revenge and betrayal all together with a family saga that sees five generations of Carters deal with the dark man. This is a great women's book because of the connections that the women in the story carry throughout all the stories. It is also a good read for older teens on up. It was compelling and pulled me along the whole way.

The Wraith of Carter’s Mill is a collection of interconnected suspense tales by C. Evenfall. The story centres on different generations of women in the Carter family, all of whom are plagued by a ghostly curse brought about by one of their eldest male ancestors. The decades of the main story range from the 1950s up to the early 2000s, making this an episodic, historical tale of suspense, where everything that can go wrong for the cursed Carters will go wrong. It culminates with a new story to the collection, Carter’s Mill, in which the grisly truth of why and how the curse affects the Carter women finally comes to light.

Fans of historical fiction should not be put off by the idea that this is a horror novel, for though horror elements are present in The Wraith of Carter’s Mill, it is very much a family-saga style tale of births, marriages and deaths through the generations. There is great authenticity in the historical atmosphere and attention to detail that author C. Evenfall gives to the stories, so that when supernatural and suspenseful moments occur, readers are swept away in their seeming realism. I particularly enjoyed all the extra details of this collection, including the meticulously detailed records of the family and the author’s interviews with many of the main characters, which only adds to the humanity and realism of the tale. Overall, I’d say that the novel will please historical fans more than horror fans, but those who love a bit of both will not be disappointed.