Kingdom of Shadows

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Clare Royland is rich, beautiful and obsessed. Since childhood she has been haunted by the fate of her ancestress Isobel, the headstrong and passionate Countess of Buchan, mistress of Robert the Bruce, and by a strange and inexplicable nightmare. Now the unhappy, childless wife of a City banker, she takes refuge in meditation and unwittingly releases a maelstrom from the past. Terrifyingly, she finds herself gripped by a recurring dream of Isobel's vivid and fascinating life. Her torments mount dramatically when her Scottish ancesttal estates at Duncaim become the site of an oil discovery and her husband Paul, deeply enmeshed in City fraud, embarks on a course of trickery and deceit to rob her of her inheritance in order to avert financial ruin and disgrace. As the entire fabric of her life collapses around her, Clare increasingly retreats into the past where Isobel, embroiled in the wars of fourteenth-centuiy Scotiand, faces anguish, fear and the prospect of untimely death. But... Tovább

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Clare Royland is rich, beautiful and obsessed. Since childhood she has been haunted by the fate of her ancestress Isobel, the headstrong and passionate Countess of Buchan, mistress of Robert the Bruce, and by a strange and inexplicable nightmare. Now the unhappy, childless wife of a City banker, she takes refuge in meditation and unwittingly releases a maelstrom from the past. Terrifyingly, she finds herself gripped by a recurring dream of Isobel's vivid and fascinating life. Her torments mount dramatically when her Scottish ancesttal estates at Duncaim become the site of an oil discovery and her husband Paul, deeply enmeshed in City fraud, embarks on a course of trickery and deceit to rob her of her inheritance in order to avert financial ruin and disgrace. As the entire fabric of her life collapses around her, Clare increasingly retreats into the past where Isobel, embroiled in the wars of fourteenth-centuiy Scotiand, faces anguish, fear and the prospect of untimely death. But when Isobel's trials escalate further, the parallels between their two lives take on frightening implications. The dream becomes a parody of reality and the castle of Duncaim becomes the battieground for passions which span the centuries. With Kingdom of Shadows, Barbara Erskine triumphantly surpasses the success of her first novel, Lady of Hay. Brilliantiy weaving her stoiy across the centuries, once again she combines an outstanding talent for bringing history alive with a mesmerising storytelling power. Vissza