She fled the heartbreak of a war-torn South only to become caught up in a startling web of intrigue and mystery. When Lora marries Union soldier Wade Tyler she learns of his past, and as she moves closer to the heart of the mystery she finds herself on the edge of a shattering truth that someone will do anything to keep hidden forever.
I do not like gothic romances but I absolutely love this book. It is of a time when women wore gowns and dresses and men wore suits, ties and uniforms. Where families had servants and maids and gardeners -- and slaves. A girl from the south whose father was killed on his way to rescue a wounded Union soldier now nurses back to life the same soldier. To perhaps fill the hole left by the death of her father, Lora weds her charge, Wade Tyler. He takes her to his family's home on Staten Island to be a mother to his young son whose own mother had mysteriously died in a pool of water. Other characters enter into the story. Her husband's mother, Amanda Tyler, rules her roost with an iron fist and Lora's husband, Wade Tyler, is his mother's dutiful son. Lora tries her best to fit in this dark household but finds herself surrounded by rules and limitations she does not understood or agree with. As Lora meets some of the neighbors and visits with them she feels there are many hidden secrets -- not the least of which concerns the death of Wade's first wife, Jemmy's mother. Was she killed, or was it suicide, and who knows something but is not telling? The tale is taut with many twists and turns and in the end you will have found the climax well worth the long journey.
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