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Jun 16, 2014ryner rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
Following the death of her sister, Eva travels from Los Angeles to Cornwall, and to Trelowarth House where she and Katrina spent many fond summers of their youth. During the first few days of her visit Eva has a number of unsettling experiences, including overhearing men's voices speaking in a nearby empty room and footpaths that wink in and out of existence. As the episodes grow more frequent, and she one day abruptly finds herself within Trelowarth in the company of an attractive man in curious clothing who is clearly surprised and suspicious at her sudden presence, Eva begins to realize she is in fact repeatedly journeying to Trelowarth's past, when it was a smuggler's haven. This was a fun, light, stand-alone novel, perfect for escapist summer reading. I enjoyed the detail about the location, both present and past, and there is always something magical about a time traveler's dawning realization during those first few moments in the past/future as they begin to get their bearings -- this story was no different. My only quibble: Novels involving time travel always demand some suspension of disbelief, but I found some of Eva's interactions with the characters from the past, who both knew about and accepted her origins, somewhat unsatisfying when they rarely expressed any curiosity at all about the two hundred years that would have transpired between their own lives and Eva's birth in the 20th century.