When Laura Harcourt accepts a temporary position in the north of England she does not dream that it will change her life forever. Wainthorpe is a small town set amongst a dense concentration of woollen mills, where the thriving Cross Ings mill is one of the most prosperous. Its respected owner is Ainsley Beaumont, whose family wealth derives from centuries in the woollen trade. However, when Laura arrives she finds that behind the façade is a family still torn apart by the memory of a disastrous fire. When a body is found floating in the mill dam, Laura finds herself drawn deeper into the Beaumonts' lives, and discovers that there are secrets which more than one person is determined to keep.
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"Was watching Downton Abbey before picking this up. It's a completely different story, but set in the same time period, and touching on some similar themes. I appreciated the serendipitous correlation." — Michele (4 out of 5 stars)
"Was watching Downton Abbey before picking this up. It's a completely different story, but set in the same time period, and touching on some similar themes. I appreciated the serendipitous correlation."
" Started out really good but the ending didn't have the bang I thought it would. I thought it was a let down. "
" This novel began as a Harlequin romance but then suddenly turned into an excellent and well crafted mystery. The characters were all realistic and the plot was puzzling enough to make you read to the end to find the murderer. "
" This was as close as current writers get to good old-fashioned romantic suspense. In Yorkshire prior to WWI a young woman leaves London to go to a remote estate to catalog a collection of books only to find she has a closer connection to the family than she ever dreamed. "
" This is an engaging historical mystery, one of my favorite genres. It was a quick read, a little romance, a mystery, and a great sense of place. "
" I was really enjoying the book until I got to the end. As another reader described in her review - it just didn't have the bang you were expecting at the end, I felt the same. Good reading until the end and then "oh, was that it....". "
" Enjoyable though it kinda didn't go anywhere at the end. "
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