Darkwood

By Rosemary Smith

In the Spring of 1865, Silvia Harvey travels to Dartmoor to meet her fiancée, her cousin Gareth.

It is a match enthusiastically arranged by her family, as were the marriages of her mother and grandmother. But Silvia’s hopes of a whirlwind romance are quickly quashed. Gareth, though handsome, is cold and aloof.

Silvia finds herself increasingly isolated by her fiancé’s distance from her and matters are made worse by the presence of the lovely Estelle Benedict, who is as cruel as she is beautiful.

Left to her own devices, Sylvia explores the many rooms of the grand building, and finds a painting of her beloved grandmother Lizzie.

The face has been cruelly slashed, and she worries of the real story behind her grandmother’s fate…

It will take a strong spirit to lay bare the secrets of Darkwood…