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"A brilliant new Gothic thriller from the acclaimed author of The Ghost Writer and The Seance Confused and disoriented, Georgina Ferrars awakens in a small room in Tregannon House, a private asylum in a remote corner of England. She has no memory of the past few weeks. The doctor, Maynard Straker, tells her that she admitted herself under the name Lucy Ashton the day before and then suffered a seizure. When she insists he has mistaken her for someone else, Dr. Straker sends a telegram to her uncle, who replies that Georgina Ferrars is at home with him in London: ""Your patient must be an imposter."" Suddenly her voluntary confinement becomes involuntary. Who is the woman in her uncle's house? And what has become of her two most precious possessions, a dragonfly pin left to her by her mother and a journal that contains the only record of those missing weeks? Georgina's perilous quest to free herself takes her from a cliffside cottage on the Isle of Wight to the secret passages of Tregannon House and into a web of hidden family ties on which her survival depends.Here is another delicious read from the author praised by Ruth Rendell as having ""a gift for creating suspense, apparently effortlessly, as if it belongs in the nature of fiction."""

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John Harwood is the author of several novels of gothic suspense, including The Seance, which won the Aurealis Award for best horror novel, and The Ghost Writer, which won the International Horror Guild's Best First Novel Award. Aside from fiction, his published work includes biography, poetry, and literary history. Rosalyn Landor has won eight AudioFile Earphones Awards and been a finalist for the Audie Award. She has worked as an actor since the age of seven, both in Europe and the United States. Her extensive list of credits includes leading roles in film, theater, and audio productions, as well as in various miniseries on all the major television networks and in such productions as Masterpiece Theatre's Sherlock Holmes and Rumpole of the Bailey.

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