A dark, page-turning
tale from Pamela Hartshorne, author of The Memory of Midnight and Time's Echo,
and a perfect read for fans of Barbara Erskine and Diana Gabaldon's Outlander
series.
Part of a trilogy
This novel shares much with the
previous two in the trilogy, Time’s Echo and The Memory of Midnight - which I both read and reviewed - but it is not a sequel, nor a prequel, the three plots and the characters are not related any way.
The three novels share the geographical setting (York), the time-slip pattern (Elizabethan Age/present day), the presence of supernatural events and the fact of having two female protagonists.
The three novels share the geographical setting (York), the time-slip pattern (Elizabethan Age/present day), the presence of supernatural events and the fact of having two female protagonists.
In The Edge of Dark, the two
heroines live in distant eras but share a great deal of tragicality in their
respective lives. Roz Acclam is the only survivor to her family’s slaughter by
fire and Jane Birkby faces the outcomes of her vow on deathbed and the hardship of being a woman in the 16th century. “Beware what you wish
for” may well be the leit motiv
for them both.
Book Blurb
Jane believes in keeping her promises but she’s caught on a twisting path of deceit and joy that takes her from the dark secrets of Holmwood House in York to the sign of the golden lily in London's Mincing Lane. Getting what you want, Jane discovers, comes at a price. For the child that she longed for, the child she promised to love and to keep safe, turns out to be a darker spirit than she could ever have imagined.
Jane believes in keeping her promises but she’s caught on a twisting path of deceit and joy that takes her from the dark secrets of Holmwood House in York to the sign of the golden lily in London's Mincing Lane. Getting what you want, Jane discovers, comes at a price. For the child that she longed for, the child she promised to love and to keep safe, turns out to be a darker spirit than she could ever have imagined.