Echoes in the Darkness (23 page)

When we finish reading, Lucia Jago, Dowager Countess of Athal, turns to look at me with eyes that are still as blue as sunlit cornflowers.

“Eddie is not dead.” My words are a statement, not a question. Flat, devoid of the emotion they deserve.

“I know.” Her next sentence answers the twenty-year-old question my lips have never dared to ask. “I have always known.”

About the Author

I live in England and enjoy reading and traveling to romantic European cities. Venice, Dubrovnik and Vienna are among my favorite places. I am a teacher, married to a lovely man, mum to two grown-up children and slave to a cat.

Gothic romance (with a dash of horror) is my preferred genre. The atmospheric settings, dark secrets and heightened sensuality send a shiver down the reader’s spine. I also write historical romances, set in the Georgian era.

Also by Jane Godman

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eISBN: 978-1-4603-3617-5

ECHOES IN THE DARKNESS

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