By Sarah E. Ladd
Isabel Creston by no means dared to dream that love can be hers. Now, on the fringe of a wooded area packed with darkish secrets and techniques, she faces a fateful selection among love and duty.
For so long as she will keep in mind, attractive and free-spirited Isabel has strained opposed to the foundations and tension of the Fellsworth university within the rolling English geographical region. now not a scholar, Isabel set her points of interest on a gradual function as a instructor on the institution, a secure but stifling institution that will let her to take care of her more youthful sister Lizzie, who used to be left in her care after her father's death.
The unforeseen arrival of a stranger with information of unknown family turns Isabel's small, predictable international the other way up, sweeping her and her younger cost right into a labyrinth of intrigue and hidden motives.
At her new family's invitation, Isabel and Lizzie relocate to Emberwilde, a sprawling property adjoining to an enormous, mysterious wooden rife with rumors and ominous folklore—along with whispers of whatever way more sinister. even perhaps extra startling, good-looking males start pursuing Isabel, forcing her to benefit the fragile dance among appeal, the problematic ideas of courtship, and the hopes of her heart.
At Emberwilde Isabel will realize that the foremost to unlocking the secret of her prior can also open the door to her destiny and protection. yet first she needs to locate it—in the depths of Emberwilde wooded area.
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