Linda Gillard - Free Library Land Online

Hidden

Tue, 15 Dec 2020 11:15:23 +0200

A birth.
A death.
Hidden for a hundred years.

1918...
"Lady, fiancé killed, will gladly marry officer totally blinded or otherwise incapacitated by the war."

A sense of duty and a desire for a child lead celebrated artist Esme Howard to share her life and her home – 16th-century Myddleton Mote – with Captain Guy Carlyle, an officer whose face and body have been ravaged by war. But Esme knows nothing of the ugliness that lurks within Guy's tortured mind, as he re-lives, night after night, the horrors of the trenches.

As a child grows within her, Esme fears Guy's wrath will be turned on them both. A prisoner in her own home, she paints like one possessed, trusting that one day someone will hear her silent cries for help.

2018...
When Miranda Norton inherits Myddleton Mote and its art collection from a father she never knew, she decides to move on after the end of an unhappy marriage. Inviting her extended family to join her,...

The Memory Tree

Tue, 10 Dec 2019 20:25:34 +0200

Star Gazing

Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:50:20 +0200

The Glass Guardian

Mon, 19 Nov 2012 04:29:41 +0200

Ruth Travers has lost a lover, both parents and her job. Now she thinks she might be losing her mind.When death strikes again, Ruth finds herself the owner of a dilapidated Victorian house on the Isle of Skye: "Tigh na Linne", the summer home she shared as a child with her beloved Aunt Janet, the woman she'd regarded as a mother.As Ruth prepares to put the old house up for sale, she discovers she's not the only occupant and suspects she might be falling in love again... With a man who died almost a hundred years ago.~~~"The Glass Guardian" - A supernatural love story from the award-winning author of Kindle bestseller, "House of Silence" (selected for Amazon's "Top Ten Best of 2011" in the Indie Author category.)

Emotional Geology

Mon, 14 Nov 2005 13:08:44 +0200

A passionate, off-beat love story set on the bleak and beautiful island of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides.Rose Leonard is on the run from her life. Haunted by her turbulent past, she takes refuge in a remote Hebridean island community where she cocoons herself in work, silence and solitude in a house by the sea. A new life and new love are offered by friends, her estranged daughter and most of all by Calum, a fragile younger man who has his own demons to exorcise. But does Rose, with her tenuous hold on sanity, have the courage to say "Yes" to life and put her past behind her?REVIEWS"The emotional power makes this reviewer reflect on how Charlotte and Emily Bronte might have written if they were living and writing now."Northwords Now"Complex and important issues are played out in the windswept beauty of a Hebridean island setting, with a hero who is definitely in the Mr Darcy league!"www.ScottishReaders.net

UNTYING THE KNOT

Wed, 23 Nov 2011 06:51:43 +0200

THE TRYSTING TREE

Wed, 23 Nov 2016 03:15:56 +0200