The disparate threads of this lush, wistful story come together for a very satisfying ending.Īlice dug into her pocket and pulled out her notebook, hurrying to make a note of the sensation and the day and the people in it, chewing on the end of her fountain pen as her gaze tripped over the sunlit house, the willow trees, the shimmering lake, and the yellow roses climbing on the iron gate. This is a ghost-less ghost story: Every character is haunted by the events of that fateful midsummer’s eve. Eventually, the timelines collide, bringing Sadie and Alice together to unearth the stunning truth. Feeling lost and eager to redeem herself as a detective, she’d determined to find out what really happened at Loeanneth. One day, Sadie - a London detective exiled to Cornwall by her superior officer after a troubling case - stumbles on the abandoned house, frozen in time. The tragedy creates permanent fault lines in the family, and they abandon their Cornwall home forever.įast forward 70 years: Alice has enjoyed a career as a best-selling author, but she’s never forgotten Theo, nor has she laid to rest her suspicions about who was behind what happened that night. From that moment, Alice’s life is forever changed. But on midsummer’s eve, in the throes of her family’s glamorous annual party at their country estate of Loeanneth, Alice’s little brother Theo disappears. She’s bright, too inquisitive for her own good, and devoted to writing stories. In the summer of 1933, she’s 16-years-old and on the razor’s edge between being a little girl and a young woman. Along the shore, waves crash in dramatic fashion against the appropriately craggy cliffs, while inland, a lush garden slowly reveals a mystery: a once-elegant manor house abandoned to crumble and keeping its own dark secrets. This atmospheric story with a haunting aura, if not an actual ghost, is set in the wild and wooly landscape of Cornwall.
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