![]() Inside his private library, I begin to uncover the ancient secrets of the house-and the ones hidden inside my heart. The new owner of Thornchapel, the seductive, elegant man I met as an imperious little boy when we were both children. Followed by a job offer I could never refuse, from a person I never could resist: Auden Guest. A single word, in her handwriting, calling me back to England. I moved on, building a life as a librarian in America, far away from the remote manor where my mother was last seen alive. Of the crumbling, magical world we found, and of the promises we made beneath the wild roses. Of my childhood friends, playing in the woods. I left her memory there, along with the others. ![]() Twelve years ago my mother disappeared into the fog-shrouded moors of Thornchapel.
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