Italian Fever was an enjoyable quick read (I read almost half of it in one evening!) about an American woman who has a romantic whirlwind adventure in Italy, with a bit of a gothic twist. The storyline was creative and well-constructed and the descriptions were vivid - I felt as if I were there i...
”Are you afraid of yourself, Mary?” Master said.The room was silent about us, but for the clock ticking, which seemed to me loud of a sudden. I thought a long time might pass before I answered but Master and I would not know it, for we was both of us waiting to hear what I would say. At first I t...
A captivating, atmospheric return to historical fiction that is every bit as convincing and engrossing as Martin's landmark Mary Reilly. In 1872 the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste was discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo was intact and there was no sign of struggle, but th...
Malcolm said. We were drinking iced coffee at a café on Esplanade, watching the traffic ooze through the heat haze. “She’s living near here.” Rita. My God, Rita. She came at me from the past, from that first winter in Vermont, her thin woolen coat blowing open over a short cotton skirt, bare legs...
College was behind me. I was in my tiny Greenwich Village apartment packing my battered suitcase, the same suitcase I took to North Carolina when I was nineteen, the same one I carried when I arrived at Penn Station four years after that, ambitious, confident, and ignorant as a post. I experience...