Twenty-nine-year-old,
independent, and self-assured Cambridge history professor Emma D'Eresby
has one obsession in life: the curious journal of a seventeenth-century
Englishman, a portion of which was left to her by her late grandfather.
When
an unexpected opportunity to study the journal in its entirety presents
itself, Emma finds herself leaving Cambridge to take up a year-long
position at a prestigious university in Maine. Anticipating a quiet year
of research, Emma quickly discovers her work impeded by a range of
unforeseen complications. From the start, there is the well-intentioned
matchmaking of her vivacious Russian colleague, Elena Smalova, and the
unexpected jailing of one of her post-graduate students. More
troublesome, however, are the unsolved, brutal night attacks on women
near the university and Emma's suspicion that they might be linked to
the sinister English professor, Kort Staahl. But, most diverting and
disconcerting of all, is Emma's growing attraction to the strikingly
handsome Dr. Matthew Lyons, whose kind but deliberately distant demeanor
puzzles her.
Suspense and dread mount when Kort begins to take a
persistent and unsettling interest in Emma. What are Kort's intentions,
and what is he capable of? And the mystery surrounding Matthew only
deepens when Emma discovers a link between him and the journal. What is
Matthew trying to hide?
This book surprised me. It was a wonderful story filled with great characters that were easy to connect with. I loved everything about this book. It had a great mystery along with a beautifully unexpected love story. I cannot wait for the next chapter in this series. Excellent job.
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