This week's top pick is brought to you by the best thing ever in the whole wide entire world: BOOKS! In fact, it's more than just BOOKS! and it deals with an author who's writing style and plot lines have completely captivated me, Susanna Kearsley. I first read
The Winter Sea in January, quickly followed by
The Rose Garden and I have just begun reading
Mariana.
From
Amazon.com: "In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and
Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart
in Scotland to reclaim his crown.
Now, Carrie McClelland hopes to
turn that story into her next bestselling novel. Settling herself in
the shadow of Slains Castle, she creates a heroine named for one of her
own ancestors and starts to write.
But when she discovers her
novel is more fact than fiction, Carrie wonders if she might be dealing
with ancestral memory, making her the only living person who knows the
truth-the ultimate betrayal-that happened all those years ago, and that
knowledge comes very close to destroying her..."
From
Amazon.com: "Eva Ward returns to the only place she truly belongs, the old house
on the Cornish coast, seeking happiness in memories of childhood
summers. There she finds mysterious voices and hidden pathways that
sweep her not only into the past, but also into the arms of a man who is
not of her time.
But Eva must confront her own ghosts, as well
as those of long ago. As she begins to question her place in the
present, she comes to realize that she too must decide where she really
belongs."
From
Amazon.com: "Time slip historical fiction at its best by New York Times and USA Today
bestselling author Susanna Kearsley, whose novel The Winter Sea won the
RT Reviewers Choice Award, and finaled for a RITA award
When
Julia Beckett moves into a beautiful old farmhouse, she finds herself
transported into17th-century England, and into the world of Mariana.
Each time Julia travels back, she becomes more enthralled with the
past... until she realizes Mariana's life is eclipsing her own. She must
lay the past to rest or risk losing the chance for happiness in her own
time."
