Pinewood Dark

Pinewood Dark by Berri L. Beatty

Unmarried and with-child, Jenny Millsborough is saved from total ruination by her family, who create a false identity for her as the widow of a drowned soldier. She is happy to be living at quaint Oxtail Cottage in Fairsbury, away from the prying eyes of Society. Nearby, lives her beloved sister Georgiana, now Lady Shaw. The charming Cotswolds village is home to both the ruling Fairsbury family, which Georgiana has married into, and the Jennings family, to whom both sisters are related. But it is also home to Pinewood Forest, a dark, mysterious conduit for restless souls. When Fairsbury Manor’s extravagant Yuletide Ball promises celebration and distraction, little does Jenny know it will be a catalyst for romance as well as tragedy. Unrequited love, the threat of scandal, possession by the father of her child, and a sudden winter plague, will force Jenny to return to Coombe Mara, the enormous Medieval estate on the stormy Devonshire coast belonging to her former love, Edward Forester. What Jenny and Edward experience together may rekindle true love, or tear them apart forever.