At first she thinks it's a coincidence, but as time progresses, she realizes that there may be more to her feelings for the house than she originally thought. She first laid eyes on this house when she was a young child and something made her declare it "her house." Then many years later, she happens upon it again and knows that she must buy it since it is for sale. Julia Beckett is leaving her London life behind for a quiet countryside existence in an old and very charming house called Greywethers. Each time Julia travels back, she becomes more enthralled with the past, falling ever deeper in love with Richard.until one day she realizes Mariana's life threatens to eclipse her own-and that she must find a way to lay the past to rest, or risk losing a chance for love in her own time." Stepping into seventeenth-century England, Julia becomes Mariana, a beautiful young woman struggling against danger and treachery, and battling a forbidden love for Richard de Mornay, handsome forebear of the present squire of Crofton Hall. As if Greywethers were a porthal between worlds, she finds herself abruptly transported back in time. But Julia soon begins to suspect that more than coincidence has brought her there. Now, twenty-five years later, by some strange chance, she has just become the new owner of the sixteenth-century Wilshire farmhouse. The first time Julia Beckett saw Greywethers she was only five, but she knew at once that it was her house. Goodreads says, " From the winner of the Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize, this mesmerizing, suspenseful, and richly atmospheric tale of time travel draws us into the heart of a heroine we won't soon forget.
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