Something strange is going on in the idyllic village of Asherby Cross...
Something that has transformed Maggie Ossian's golden, carefree friend Lilian into a haunted creature of midnight secrets and dark, seething passions.
No one else is truly aware of Lilian's odd behaviour - her mysterious nocturnal disappearances, her uncharacteristic activities - not even her handsome cousin Francis, whom Maggie has adored since childhood.
But when tragedy shakes the town, Maggie makes an even more shocking discovery - a discovery she dares reveal to no one... until an oddly familiar stranger appears in Asherby and Maggie finds herself quite alone, trapped in a web of intrigue.
It's up to Maggie to see if she can rescue her friend from a complicated tangle of lies and revenge, and restore Asherby Cross to its once peaceful life - but she is just one girl in the face of danger.
Romance and suspense blend in a haunting drama set in the nineteenth-century British countryside, as two former girlhood friends seek love, vengeance, and retribution for themselves.
Anna Gilbert is the pseudonym under which Marguerite Lazarus (nee Jackson) wrote her romance novels. She was the second child of a schoolmaster and she herself went on to become an English teacher at a grammar school. Other novels by Anna include The Look of Innocence, Remembering Louise, The Wedding Guest, The Long Shadow, and many more.
Genre: Historical Romance
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