Mariana

I gathered by my courage and looked up. “I want to know what it was that Mariana saw through the window in the Cavalier bedroom. All my flashbacks are tied to a physical place, you see, and I have to be standing on that exact spot if I want to go back there.”

Yes, I know. But are you sure that you want to go back to that moment just yet? You felt the pain yourself.

I was silent a moment, remembering. “I have to know,” I said, finally. “You should understand that. These people, they’re all so real to me…I have to know.”

Thus speaks Julia, who having bought the house which spoke to her as a child, finds herself able to go back in time to the life of Mariana. Using elements of time travel and reincarnation, Kearsley tells a story of love and passion which drew me in as, like Julia, I had to know what happened in Mariana’s life. Their story is an intriguing one, with a wonderful, satisfying ending. This was a new twist on an ancient theme of love, and I thank Sourcebooks for the opportunity to read it.