Published by Sapere Books on August 11th 2023
Format: eARC
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Also by this author: The Cheesemaker's House, Another You
A beautiful Cornish-set time-shift romance! Perfect for fans of Sarah Burton, Stacey Halls, Jessie Burton and Kate Mosse.
Two centuries separate Carla and Harriet … but will something shift to bring their stories together?
Cornwall, 2020
Teacher Carla Burgess is using her time in solitude to revaluate her life. She loves living on the beautiful Cornish coast, but she no longer enjoys her job, and it’s certainly time to kick her on-off boyfriend, Kitto, into touch.With lockdowns forcing her to spend most of her days indoors at her parents’ family farm, she joins her father in researching their family history, and she discovers the first Burgess to farm Koll Hendra was actually a smuggler. And when Carla finds a locked Georgian tea caddy in the barn, the secrets of the past start to encroach on the present…
Cornwall, 1810
Harriet Lemon’s position as companion to Lady Frances Basset has been the ideal cover for their clandestine romantic relationship. But when Frances is raped and falls pregnant, their perfect happiness is shattered. The lovers are desperate to remain together, but they will need to conceal Frances's baby.They hope to hide the pregnancy and place the baby with adoptive family, but the only person who may be able to help them is Frances’s childhood friend, William Burgess, a notorious smuggler. William has secrets of his own he needs to protect. Will he be willing to risk his own neck for the sake of the two lovers?
THE LOST HEIR is a beautiful time-shift romance set in Cornwall between the Regency era and the modern day. It is part of the Cornish Echoes Dual Timeline Mystery series.
I know when I read a book by Jane, I am going on an adventure and I will be taken back in time. This book was no different. I could have happily read this book all day every day. I don’t think I would ever be bored of the story of Mani, Carla, Harriet, and Franny. There is so much packed into this beautifully woven story, I would love to have more! I would love to continue to read more about Franny!
Present and past are interwoven in this tale, just like the ones Jane has written before (The Cheesemaker’s House is still my fav!), I was pulled in. A shocking prologue and then a present-day story. This is a somewhat slow burner, but it has to be. There are so many details and descriptions you need in this book to show the beauty of it all. The love stories are beautiful, and the friendships woven in are precious. You really feel the isolation in each of the tales spun in front of us. The time period for each storyline played perfectly to this, but I am not going to tell you why because I think that will spoil it. But it aided the story, it gave the characters a chance to discover themselves as individuals and with other people.
I really did thoroughly enjoy this story, I loved the characters. I did expect a bit more of a supernatural element, but I also felt that it was enough for the present-day characters to get some closure and answers.
This is definitely a great book and I lost my heart in 1810.
Until the next time xxx
Thank you so much to Rachel’s Random Resources for the tour invite and to the publisher and the author for a copy of the book in return for my honest and unbiased review
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