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Mary Kather­ine (‘Mer­ri­cat’) Black­wood lives, together with her older sis­ter Con­stance and Uncle Julian, in a castle, long ago bought by her ances­tors. It is a beau­ti­ful and mighty cas­tle, but some­thing hor­ri­ble hap­pened eight years ago and that is why the fences and cas­tle doors are closed for all (town) peo­ple. Mary Kather­ine has to go to town twice a week for gro­ceries and has her own rit­ual to go around there, because oth­er­wise she gets lost in hate­ful sneers and looks of the town peo­ple. The rest of the time the Black­woods are cut of from every­day life, but they like it that way.
Until, one day cousin Charles appears at the doorsteps of the cas­tle. His inten­tions are clear for Mary Kather­ine, but Con­stance is dragged into Charles’s mind­set and all that has hap­pened eight years ago is com­ing back to the service.

A solid story and highly enjoy­able to read. The sus­pense built-up is good and it drags you into the story not to let go until the last word.

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