The first time Julia Beckett saw Greywethers she was only five, but
she knew that it was her house. And now that she's at last become
its owner, she suspects that she was drawn there for a reason. As if
Greywethers were a portal between worlds, she finds herself
transported into seventeenth-century England, becoming Mariana, a
young woman struggling against danger and treachery, and battling a
forbidden love.
Each time Julia travels back, she becomes more enthralled with the
past...until she realizes Mariana's life is threatening to eclipse
her own, and she must find a way to lay the past to rest or lose the
chance for happiness in her own time.
Susanna Kearsley was a museum curator before she took the plunge
and became a full-time author. The past and its bearing on the present
is a familiar theme in her books. She won the prestigious Catherine
Cookson Fiction Award for her novel Mariana, and was shortlisted for
the Romantic Novel of the Year Award for Sophia's Secret.
www. susannakearsley. com
