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The Wrong Girl (The 1st Freak House Trilogy)

Name: The Wrong Girl (The 1st Freak House Trilogy)
Rating: 4.2 (2956 reviews)
Author: C.J. Archer
ISBN: B00D1SQC50

by C.J. Archer

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About this book

From the pen of a multi USA Today bestselling author comes this enchanting supernatural fantasy.

It's customary for Gothic romance novels to include a mysterious girl locked in the attic. Hannah Smith just wishes she wasn't that girl. As a narcoleptic and the companion to an earl's daughter with a strange affliction of her own, Hannah knows she's lucky to have a roof over her head and food in her belly when so many orphans starve on the streets. Yet freedom is something Hannah longs for. She did not, however, want her freedom to arrive in the form of kidnapping.

Taken by handsome Jack Langley to a place known as Freak House, she finds herself under the same roof as a mad scientist, his niece, a mute servant and Jack, a fire starter with a mysterious past. They assure Hannah she is not a prisoner and that they want to help her. The problem is, they think she's the earl's daughter. What will they do when they discover they took the wrong girl?

This book is suitable for teens.

ORDER OF BOOKS IN THE 1st FREAK HOUSE TRILOGY:

1 The Wrong Girl

2 Playing With Fire

3 Heart Burn

Publication Date: May 25, 2026
ASIN: B00D1SQC50

Reader Reviews

C.J. Archer does not disappoint again

July 16, 2024

It was a really fun book. I could not put it down when I started it. It never got dull or had long sections of \"filler-stuff.\" It was captivating from beginning to end. Don't start to read before you know you have the time to finish it. Luckily, it can be easily read in a day If you like historical fiction mixed with fantasy, some interesting characters, and a story that keep you in suspense from beginning to end, this is a book you definitely should check out. C.j. Archer has created a world...

Same flavor as The Ministry of Curiosities

May 6, 2017

I've been reading C.J. Archer's The Ministry of Curiosities series and decided to pick this up since I've been enjoying that series and this one seemed similar. They are actually very similar and I'm pretty sure that they are supposed to be taking place in the same world around the same time in a supernatural Victorian London. In fact, I do believe that another of Archer's series, the Emily Chambers Spirit Medium trilogy, is referenced in this book. So, if you like either of those series, read...

Not what I was expecting

May 27, 2014

The Wrong Girl starts off……strange. There are two girls. One is an orphan (from a servant, supposedly) and one is the daughter of an earl. They have spent their whole lives sequestered in an attic. The reason? The Earl’s daughter, Violet, can apparently start fires with her hands. Like, from her fingertips. Weird, right? And the orphan girl, Hannah, is a narcoleptic which means that she has unexplained bouts of unconsciousness. So, one day Hannah gets kidnapped right out of the Earl’s garden...

Great series

April 24, 2026

Like this book. Really exciting. Also loved it was a love story too. )

A Good Book, But...

May 23, 2015

Although this was a good book, I probably won't be continuing the series. This is mostly due to the pacing of the story and the way in which the author chose to tell it... literally. Too much conversation for my taste. Way, way too much conversation. The first several chapters were excellent, and I had high hopes that the rest of the book would be equally action-filled and compelling. Well... action-filled, no. Compelling? If you don't mind characters verbally discussing mysteries, meeting upon...