Stewart ties together crime, history, and the paranormal in a well-crafted romance-cum-mystery novel. The central character, Bryony, has inherited the family's psychic "gift", but she does not know which of her relatives is the unknown lover with whom she has a telepathic link. When her father dies suddenly leaving a fragmented message, she returns to the decaying family house in England, and a clutch of tantalizing mysteries: missing ornaments, a cloaked figure in the church vestry, and her twin cousins who amuse themselves by standing in for each other. Outside the run-down Tudor house, a tangled and overgrown maze and its pavilion (made by a romantic forebear for his wife, and used for secret assignations by his philandering son) gradually encroaches on the story. It has the page-turning quality of detective fiction, but without the constraint of that genre. I enjoyed reading this. MB 30-xi-2009 ( )

Fun, suspenseful, romantic book about telepathy, very good! ( )

A whisper in the night warns Byrony that her father is dying. His death, and her return to the family estate sparks a chain of events which she may not survive. Who is her Love, and will he reveal himself in time to save her?

Stewart has created a gripping mystery with intricately woven historical details, plenty of suspense, and enough romance to wrap everything up quite nicely. One to return to again and again. ( )

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What a terrific story. Mary Stewart's typical cool but passionate heroine is in love, in danger, and psychic. How cool is that? She can communicate with her "Love" in her mind, but doesn't know which of her distant cousins he is. And now he may have done something unforgivable. ( )