House of Shadows

When Kate Vavasour wakes in hospital, she can remember nothing about the family gathered around her bed, or of her life before the accident. The doctors diagnose post-traumatic amnesia and say the memories should start returning. Which they do—but these memories are not her own. They belong to Isabel Vavasour, who lived and died at Askerby Hall more than 400 years earlier. Returning to Askerby Hall to recuperate, Kate finds herself in a house full of shadows and suspicions. Unable to recognize her family, her friends or even her small son, she struggles to piece together the events that led to her terrible fall. Life at Askerby, it seems, is not as illustrious as the Vavasours would have the public believe. But before she can uncover the mysteries of the present, she must first discover the truth about the past. Was Isabel's madness real, or was her mistake trusting the one person she thought would never betray her?

Pamela Hartshorne is a historian as well as an award-winning romance writer. Her first novelTime's Echo was short-listed for the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s RoNA Award for a Historical Romantic Novel.