Virginia M. (minimauve) reviewed on 4/4/2013

This is a first effort for the author and in it she uses every romantic cliche, purple adjective, and stilted phrase in the Victorian writing handbook. An interesting and inventive plot is buried under ponderous overwriting, and no melodramatic device is left unexploited, from jilted lovers, unrequited love and unwanted babies to hints of ugly incest and horrendous hauntings. Evidently, and thankfully, Sarah Blake is the better for this authorial exorcism, as her next book was the bestselling The Postmistress which was a tightly-written delight.

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