Bellewether

Author : Susanna Kearsley

Genre : Fiction

I enjoy a Susanna Kearsley fiction book because there is often a historical background and a ghost from the past that in some way brings the truth of the past into the present. There is usually a love story in the present and often in the past. Charly has been hired as the curator of the Wilde home on Long Island with a mandate to refurbish and repair it as a historical site. It’s complicated in many ways, in part because she feels someone invisible is in the house also.

At the time of divided loyalties and family strife, forbidden love blooms between a captured French Canadian lieutenant and the daughter of the house where he is an unwilling and unwelcome guest. Local legend has it that their story ended tragically, and would report seeing the officer with a lamp moving along the path toward the cove at night.