From the bestselling author of House of Shadows and The
Phantom Tree comes a spellbinding tale of jealousy, greed, plotting
and revenge--part history, part mystery--for fans of Kate Morton,
Susanna Kearsley and Barbara Erskine
London, 1765
Lady Isabella Gerard, a respectable member of Georgian society, orders
her maid to take her new golden gown and destroy it, its shimmering
beauty tainted by the actions of her brutal husband the night before.
Three months later, Lord Gerard stands at the shoreline of the lake,
looking down at a woman wearing the golden gown. As the body slowly
rolls over to reveal her face, it's clear this was not his intended
victim...
250 Years Later...
When a gown she stole from a historic home as a child is mysteriously
returned to Fenella Brightwell, it begins to possess her in exactly the
same way that it did as a girl. Soon the fragile new life Fen has
created for herself away from her abusive ex-husband is threatened at
its foundations by the gown's power over her until she can't tell what
is real and what is imaginary.
As Fen uncovers more about the gown and Isabella's story, she begins to
see the parallels with her own life. When each piece of history is
revealed, the gown--and its past--seems to possess her more and more,
culminating in a dramatic revelation set to destroy her sanity.
