Wizard's Daughter Book

I generally like for fictional heroines to be more intelligent and spirited than the naive and insipid Miss Marianne Ransom. Fortunately, the mysterious and ghostly plot of this book was enough to keep me from tossing it across the room. While I wouldn't go so far as to pronounce her Too Stupid To Live, Miss Ransom put herself in quite a lot of daft situations, such as wandering on the stage of a London theater one day after arriving from the country and bursting into song, fantasizing that she would immediately become a Famous Actress. This does not happen of course, but what does happen, a duchess decides she is the long-lost child of an old friend (who was a spiritualist) and takes her in as a companion (and makes her perform table turning)is almost as far-fetched. So, is she really? Or is someone playing tricks? The answers to these questions are not what I expected; however, had I given this author a little more credit I probably would have figured it out. Upon reflection, there was certainly enough foreshadowing. I just expected the ending to be less of a revelation. My mistake.
I'm not terribly tempted to check out more of this author's work, although I wasn't unimpressed. I would recommend this only to fans of chaste gothic romances.