A Stitch in Time

by Kelley Armstrong

Overview

Thorne Manor has always been haunted...and it has always haunted Bronwyn Dale. As a young girl, Bronwyn could pass through a time slip in her great-aunt's house, where she visited William Thorne, a boy her own age, born two centuries earlier. After a family tragedy, the house was shuttered and Bronwyn was convinced that William existed only in her imagination.

Now, twenty years later Bronwyn inherits Thorne Manor. And when she returns, William is waiting.

William Thorne is no longer the boy she remembers. He's a difficult and tempestuous man, his own life marred by tragedy and a scandal that had him retreating to self-imposed exile in his beloved moors. He's also none too pleased with Bronwyn for abandoning him all those years ago.

As their friendship rekindles and sparks into something more, Bronwyn must also deal with ghosts in the present version of the house. Soon she realizes they are linked to William and the secret scandal that drove him back to Thorne Manor. To build a future, Bronwyn must confront the past.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781989046418
Publisher:	Kla Fricke Inc
Publication date:	09/28/2021
Series:	A Stitch in Time , #1
Edition description:	Large Type
Pages:	534
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 1.19(d)

About the Author

Kelley Armstrong believes experience is the best teacher, though she's been told this shouldn't apply to writing her murder scenes. To craft her books, she has studied aikido, archery and fencing. She sucks at all of them. She has also crawled through very shallow cave systems and climbed half a mountain before chickening out. She is however an expert coffee drinker and a true connoisseur of chocolate-chip cookies.

Editorial Reviews

07/13/2020

This well-crafted supernatural romance from suspense author Armstrong (Every Step She Takes) offers escapist thrills aplenty but ignores the issues underpinning its plot. When Bronwyn Dale inherits her great-aunt’s Yorkshire manor, memories from her childhood visits come flooding back—and with them decades-old trauma. As a child, a “stitch in time” in the house allowed Bronwyn to travel between her present and the 19th century, where she befriended William Thorne, the child of the manor’s Victorian era owners. At 15, their friendship blossomed into romance—until a terrifying ghostly encounter in the modern day leads to Bronwyn’s great-uncle’s death. Grief-stricken, Bronwyn finally told her parents about time traveling and seeing ghosts—resulting in her parents committing her to a psychiatric hospital where the doctors successfully convinced her that neither the ghost nor William were real. Now, 23 years later, Bronwyn must face her past and solve the mysteries that haunt Thorne Manor, all while she and William rekindle their impossible relationship. The gripping plot and thoughtful characters are mildly undermined by the way Armstrong blithely glosses over the paradoxes of time travel, the implications of a series of gruesome murders in William’s time, and the hospital’s gaslighting of Bronwyn. Still, readers looking to escape into a taut, sexy mystery will enjoy. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly