Her nerves were jangling and her heart pounding, probably from that horrible coffee she'd had in the bus station, forcing herself to drink in an attempt to keep herself warm and alert while she waited. She should sleep.īut after so long awake-she'd been too excited and anxious to get much rest the night before she left, and too uncomfortable on the plane, sandwiched between two strangers-sleep seemed like a skill she'd lost. She'd made it to the last leg of her journey and there was nothing else she had to do, nothing to worry about for the next four hours and fifteen minutes until the bus delivered her to her final destination. She sank a little farther into her seat and shut her eyes as the bus grumbled and shuddered and made its slow, complaining way from one stoplight to another through the teeming city streets. The chilly air carried the scent of rain mixed in with traffic exhaust and fuel smells. At home, it was still summer, with everyone wearing shorts and tee shirts or bright summer dresses, but here it looked like winter already, with people on the streets all bundled up in coats and jackets. She looked at it all as if from a very great distance, and wondered if what she felt-or didn't feel-was simply the effect of exhaustion and jet lag. Something about the quality of the milky light, the greyness of the streets, reminded her of old black-and-white movies made long before she was born-before her own parents were born-from a vanished, untouchable era.
Although this was her first foreign city, she couldn't get excited about it she just didn't feel she was really here. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Īshley Kaldis leaned her head against the cool glass and gazed through the bus window at the Glasgow streets. Most unexpected is a handsome stranger who will draw all three women into an Otherworld where, as in Eden, the bite of a single apple can alter the course of reality.
Widowed Nell Westray hopes for a quiet life in the place she and her husband spent their happiest moments.Īnd young Ashley Kaldis has come to find her roots.īut when a sudden landslide cuts Appleton off from the wider world-and the usual constraints of reality-the village reveals itself to be an extraordinary place, inhabited by legendary beings and secret rooms. And outsiders are still drawn to the charming village, including three very different American women.Įnchanted by Appleton’s famously ornate library, divorcée Kathleen Mullaroy has left her cosmopolitan job to start anew as the town’s head librarian. Now, though the orchards are long gone, locals still dream of the town’s glory days, when good luck seemed a way of life. Nestled on the coast of Scotland, Appleton was once famous for its apples.
The award-winning author of The Mysteries returns with another captivating novel in which modern-day enigmas and age-old myths come together to bear spellbinding fruit.
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