EAN: 9780063392427

STOKES-CHAPMAN SUSAN THE SHADOW KEY

On an isolated estate in late-eighteenth-century rural Wales  a young English doctor uncovers
dangerous secrets that may threaten his own life in this spellbinding Gothic tale from the
bestselling author of Pandora. Dismissed from his post at a prestigious London hospital  Dr.
Henry Talbot has little choice but to accept a mysterious offer of employment as a private
physician from an inscrutable lord in rural Wales  Lord Julian. Arriving at Plas Helyg  the
isolated estate  Henry can’t speak the language and finds himself treated with hostile
suspicion by superstitious villagers  whose beliefs in myths and magic he’s inclined to
dismiss. But when he discovers that his predecessor died under peculiar  inexplicable
circumstances  his determination to uncover the truth leads him down a path fraught with
danger—made all the more perilous by his headstrong  reluctant ally Linette  Lord Julian’s
cousin. Linette has lived a lonely life as Plas Helyg’s unconventional mistress: Julian treats
her with disdain  her father is long dead  and her mother  long plagued by strange spells and
believed by everyone around her to be deeply unwell  spends most of her time locked away in her
rooms. Fiercely self-reliant  Linette refuses to wear women’s clothes  has no interest in
marriage  and takes an interest in the welfare of the men working in Lord Julian’s mines 
against his wishes. Linette has always suspected something is not quite right in the village 
but it is only through Henry's dogged investigations that the dark truth about those closest to
her will come to light—a truth that will bind hers and Henry's destinies together forever in
ways neither thought possible.

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