This historical fiction has hints of romance and suspense and keeps you on your toes. The stories are woven together in different time periods and the result is a wonderful store.

(I received a free copy of this book from Net Galley in exchange for an honest review.)

Summer, 1933. Alice Eveleigh has arrived at Fiercombe Manor in disgrace. Hiding her shame in the beautiful yet isolated house, in the care of housekeeper, Mrs Jelphs, Alice begins to sense that something isn't quite right. And that she is being watched.
There are secrets at Fiercombe that those who remain there are determined to keep. Tragedy haunts the empty rooms and traces of the previous occupant, Elizabeth Stanton, are everywhere. And Alice discovers Elizabeth's life eerily mirrors the path she herself is on. . .
The past is set to repeat its sorrows, with devastating consequences.

I seem to have read a few of these of late...and this one certainly wasn't the worst of them.

Two parallel time periods - one in the late 1800's and the other in the 1930's. Two parallel stories - the first being what is happening to Alice and, secondly, how does it relate to what happened to Elizabeth 40 years before?

There was enough in this book to get me through to the end (although it was a near-thing during the middle third of the book - I was very close to giving up) and some of the mystery was quite interesting, there just wasn't enough in it to make me rave about it. 3 stars means "Good" - and that is what this book was. Good.


Paul
ARH