June 1933, and the Edevane family's country house, Loeanneth, is polished and gleaming, ready for the much-anticipated Midsummer Eve party. It’s here that Cassandra will finally unearth the truth about the family, and solve the century-old mystery of a little girl lost.A missing child. Cliff Cottage and its neglected garden are ill-famed amongst the Cornish locals. She begins a desperate search for the truth decades later, one that takes her to the stunning and mysterious Blackhurst Manor once owned by the aristocratic Mountrachet family.Ĭassandra receives an unexpected inheritance after the death of her grand-mother, Nell. Twenty-one year old Nell O’Connor discovers a secret that will forever alter the course of her life. Authoress, a strange woman, had promised to take care of her, only for Authoress to suddenly disappear. History may certainly have forgotten it, but Grace never could.Ī young girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia on the eve of the First World War. When the memories are sparked, terrible secrets begin to be revealed. Ninety-eight year old Grace Bradley, who at one point worked at Riverton Manor as a maid, is visited by a young director making a movie about the young poet who took away his life. Two of Kate Morton's fan favorites in one ebook collection:Ī youthful poet commits suicide during a Society party by the lake of a lavish English country house with sisters Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, the only witnesses in the incident, never speaking to each other again.
It is only when Jess skims through its pages that she finds a shocking connection between her own family and this notorious event – a mystery that has never been satisfactorily resolved.
A phone call out of nowhere summons her back to Sydney, where her beloved grandmother Nora, who raised Jess when her mother could not, has suffered a fall and is seriously ill in the hospital.Īt Nora's house, Jess discovers a true crime book chronicling a long-buried police case: the Turner Family Tragedy of 1959. Having lived and worked in London for two decades, she now finds herself unemployed and struggling to make ends meet. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery.
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