The 1800's in London is a time I rarely venture into that often, which is why I was keen to read this one (broaden my horizons).
Awakening a mystery that spans centuries, this multilayered gothic tale brings a time, a place, and a cast of desperate characters brilliantly to life.Jennifer Delamere is a new-to-me author, The Captain's Daughter is the start of her London Beginning's series. Seduction is a historically evocative and atmospheric tale of suspense with a spellbinding ghost story at its heart, written by one of America's most gifted and imaginative novelists. Neither Jac nor Theo anticipate that the mystery surrounding Victor Hugo will threaten their sanity and put their very lives at stake. Central to his heritage, these are the papers his grandfather died trying to find.
But the man who has invited her there, a troubled soul named Theo Gaspard, hopes she'll help him discover something quite different - transcripts of Hugo's lost conversations with someone he called the Shadow of the Sepulcher. In the hopes of uncovering a secret about the island's mysterious Celtic roots, she arrives on Jersey and is greeted by ghostly Neolithic monuments, medieval castles, and hidden caves. Recovering from a great loss, mythologist Jac L Etoile thinks that throwing herself into work will distract her from her grief. Hugo's transcriptions of these conversations have all been published. In the process, he claimed to have communed with Plato, Galileo, Shakespeare, Dante, Jesus - and even the devil himself. Ten years later, still grieving, Hugo initiated hundreds of séances from his home on the Isle of Jersey in order to reestablish contact with her. In 1843, novelist Victor Hugo's beloved 19-year-old daughter drowned.
A gothic tale about Victor Hugo's long-buried secrets and the power of a love that never dies.
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