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This romantic suspense novel revolves around a literary agent who is haunted by nightmares since the loss of her baby. On holiday in a small village, she befriends an eccentric young widow who fears for her son's safety and forms an unlikely alliance with a reclusive, brooding playwright. In the process, she's pulled into an ancient world of haunting legends, where she'll finally uncover the secrets of her dreams.
This romantic suspense novel revolves around a literary agent who is haunted by nightmares since the loss of her baby. On holiday in a small village, she befriends an eccentric young widow who fears for her son's safety and forms an unlikely alliance with a reclusive, brooding playwright. In the process, she's pulled into an ancient world of haunting legends, where she'll finally uncover the secrets of her dreams.
Helpful Score: 1
As always with Susanna Kearsley, this story has great atmosphere, slowly gathering suspense, and a sweet-yet-subtle romance. Loved the setting (Wales) and the sub-plot involving Merlin!
A suspenseful romance in the style of Barbara Michaels.
The invitation to spend Christmas in Angle, on the Pembrokeshire coast, is one that Lyn Ravenshaw is only too happy to accept. To escape London and the pressures of her literary agency is temptation enough, but the prospect of meeting Booker Prize nominee James Swift - conveniently in search of an agent - is the deciding factor. On holiday she encounters the disturbing Elen Vaughan, recently widowed and with an eight-month-old son whose paternity is a subject for local gossip. Elen's baby arouses painful memories of Lyn's own dead child/ and strange, haunting dreams, in which a young woman in blue repeatedly tries to hand over her child to Lyn for safekeeping.
Who is the father of Elen's baby? What is the eerie, monstrous creature of Elen's dreams that tries to ensnare her son, and what makes her so sure that Lyn has been sent to protect him? As she begins to untangle the truth behind the stories, the secret she discovers leads Lyn to an encounter with the past that will change her life forever.
The invitation to spend Christmas in Angle, on the Pembrokeshire coast, is one that Lyn Ravenshaw is only too happy to accept. To escape London and the pressures of her literary agency is temptation enough, but the prospect of meeting Booker Prize nominee James Swift - conveniently in search of an agent - is the deciding factor. On holiday she encounters the disturbing Elen Vaughan, recently widowed and with an eight-month-old son whose paternity is a subject for local gossip. Elen's baby arouses painful memories of Lyn's own dead child/ and strange, haunting dreams, in which a young woman in blue repeatedly tries to hand over her child to Lyn for safekeeping.
Who is the father of Elen's baby? What is the eerie, monstrous creature of Elen's dreams that tries to ensnare her son, and what makes her so sure that Lyn has been sent to protect him? As she begins to untangle the truth behind the stories, the secret she discovers leads Lyn to an encounter with the past that will change her life forever.
This is an interesting story about a woman who works for a publishing firm, her grief, and her efforts to recruit new authors. She is invited by one of her authors to spend Christmas holidays with her and her current beau. Lyn's firm wants her to sign a playwright who lives nearby and offers a directorship if she succeeds. However, Lyn finds herself involved in a strange situation. She dreams of a baby, carrying him away as she flees from a dragon. The loss of her own son was traumatic, especially after the loss of her husband. But the dreams become reality when she meets a young woman who also lost her husband and fears that someone is trying to take her son from her. She views Lyn as her son's protector. When the fears assume reality, Lyn takes the baby and runs. The mother and son have both been drugged because someone indeed wants to steal her son. What she fears is reality after all. Not only is there mystery but there is romance as well. Rather nice read.
having lost her own child, Lyn is again subjected to protecting a child in harm...
i just could not get into the book! everything was I-I-I.
hate a beginning like that. and i don't like barbara michaels-style books either.
hate a beginning like that. and i don't like barbara michaels-style books either.
