Book overview
A secret sealed with a kiss...
The Lake District, 1923. Douglas Bellamy is dying, and a cruel entailment will leave his daughters destitute. Their only hope is a distant American cousin arriving for Christmas, whom the eldest daughter, Geneva, must charm into marriage. But she is already entangled with Rory Sullivan, the Irish estate manager her father would never accept, and her younger sister, Honor, watches their forbidden affair with envy slowly curdling into something deadly. As the household hurtles toward a glittering New Year's Eve, old loyalties fracture and a devastating secret surfaces--one that will cost a young woman her life.
Present day. When a woman's body is found in a sealed well, perfectly preserved and dressed in silk, archaeologist Quinn Allenby investigates. The claddagh ring on the dead woman's finger tells her nothing, but an amethyst earring tangled in her hair plunges Quinn into the doomed world of the Bellamys. As her own family begins to fracture, she realises the truth buried in that well could destroy the living as surely as the dead...
A sweeping story of love, inheritance, and lethal family secrets, perfect for fans of Diana Gabaldon, Susanna Kearsley, and Barbara Erskine.