<P><B>A postmortem photographer unearths dark secrets of the past that may hold the key to his future in this captivating debut novel in the Gothic tradition of <I>Wuthering Heights</I> and <I>The Thirteenth Tale</I>.</B></p><P><I>All love stories are ghost stories in disguise.</i></p><P>When famed Byronesque poet Hugh de Bonne is discovered dead of a heart attack in his bath one morning his cousin Robert Highstead a historian turned postmortem photographer is charged with a simple task: transport Hugh’s remains for burial in a chapel. This chapel a stained-glass folly set on the moors of Shropshire was built by de Bonne 16 years earlier to house the remains of his beloved wife and muse Ada. Since then the chapel has been locked and abandoned a pilgrimage site for the rabid fans of de Bonne’s last book The Lost History of Dreams.</P><P>However Ada’s grief-stricken niece refuses to open the glass chapel for Robert unless he agrees to her bargain: Before he can lay Hugh to rest Robert must record Isabelle’s story of Ada and Hugh’s ill-fated marriage over the course of five nights.</p><P>As the mystery of Ada and Hugh’s relationship unfolds so does the secret behind Robert’s own marriage — including that of his fragile wife Sida who has not been the same since the tragic accident three years ago and the origins of his own morbid profession that has him seeing things he shouldn’t — things from beyond the grave.</P><P>Kris Waldherr effortlessly spins a sweeping and atmospheric Gothic mystery about love and loss that blurs the line between the past and the present truth and fiction and ultimately life and death.</p>
