Sourcebooks Casablanca
Featuring: Christina Murray; Ian Douglas
384 pages ISBN: 1402255837 EAN: 9781402255830 Kindle: B004NNVDI8 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
When Christina Murray arrives in Scotland's Traquair House
at the behest of a woman she has never before met, her life
takes a strange and Gothic turn. In the moment Ellen
Maxwell's gaze met Christina's, Ellen died. Then Christina
discovers Traquair house, one of the oldest homes in
Scotland, has been left to her. As a long-time student of
Gaelic antiquity, it seems a dream come true but, newly
divorced, Christina is no longer the gullible trusting woman
she once was.
In no way ready for a new relationship, Christina fights the
strong erotic draw of Ian Douglas, a nearby land owner.
Still, Ian is the most knowledgeable person in the area
regarding the history of Traquair House and the most likely
source of the information she needs to discover her
ancestral link to the property, and why perfect strangers
had made her their heir.
Complicating matters, Christina begins to have strange
dreams and visions of the past, revolving around women whose
faces could have been her own, living out their lives in
their individual time periods. Each dies too young, and each
has something to do with a pivotal turning point in
Scotland's history.
Jeanette Baker has penned a classic Gothic novel, complete
with a mysterious ancient home, an uncertain hero, and even
a Mrs. Danvers-style housekeeper. She has added a hint of
the ghostly with the infusion of historic tragedy into the
present, and writes the historical sections of the tale with
vivid immediacy. If you enjoyed the Gothic romances of the
past (you remember, the ones with the woman in a nightdress
running away from a moonlit stone mansion on the cover) or
if you like a strong thread of emotional suspense in your
reading you will greatly enjoy immersing yourself in LEGACY.
Christina Murray is elated to inherit her family's
ancestral Scottish home, especially when she meets her
gorgeous neighbor Ian Douglas, full of Scottish charm and
intriguing knowledge of the house's secrets...
Turns Into a Nightmare...
But at night, Christina is visited by haunting dreams from
ghostly ancestors who lead her through the terrifying
labyrinth of her family's bloody history. As much as Ian
longs to help her, there's nothing he can do to alleviate
Christina's terrors...
Clinging to her sanity and to her newfound love for Ian,
Christina discovers the family curse that threatens to
bring them both to a terrifying end...
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