Youth and the idiocy with which it brings is the fault of this book. "I was so stupid when I just graduated from college and I thought I knew everything!" To be sure, 10 years from now, we will reflect and look back at our relative stupidity now and say "I was so stupid when I was _ and I didn't even realize it!" The rest of us, being old, wise, ancient creatures of mid-20 to 30-somethings, looked upon her with contempt. Newly graduated from college, she's only 22. Awhile ago, we had a new employee in my company. We often don't realize the comparative idiocy of youth until we're older. But passion is not all that will greet Bryony upon her return - for the crumbling walls of the old mansion guard dark secrets, tragic memories. the lover-to-be who waits for her now at Ashley Court. Devastated, she believes, that the mysterious stranger is her destiny. Since childhood the two have communicated through thought patterns, though Bryony has no idea of his identity. And there is something odd about her father's sudden death.īryony has inherited the Ashley 'Sight' and so has one of the Ashleys. Still, her father's final, dire warning about a terrible family curse haunts her days and her dreams. Her family's estate with its load of debt is no longer her worry. After the tragic death of her father, Bryony returns from abroad to find that his estate is to become the responsibility of her cousin Emory. Bryony Ashley knows that Ashley Court, the grand estate, is both hell and paradise - once elegant and beautiful, yet shrouded in shadow.
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