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Eighth Winter
When Trayten disappears from Dorset in 1901, Katherine devotes the next eight years to finding him.
She never imagined she would find him like this: confined to a wheelchair on the island of Alderney. Now, the brilliant painter who once loved her is a bitter recluse with no recollection of their turbulent past.
Posing as a psychologist and concealing her connection to him, Katherine determines to restore his memory and solve the mystery of the event that resulted in her husband’s brutal death and Trayten’s disappearance. She must contend with Trayten’s resistance to recovery and the opposition of Marian, the possessive caretaker who is unwilling to let him go.
Alternately, the reader is transported back to Hampshire in 1900, where Trayten is a cynical, impoverished artist and Katherine is a privileged, rebellious debutante. Their whirlwind love affair is threatened by the perils of poverty and Reuben, the proper husband imposed by Katherine’s father. Torn between her bohemian ideals and the securities of wealth, Katherine embarks on a journey of destruction, propelling them all toward calamity.
Will Katherine bring Trayten’s memory back and find absolution for the mistakes that caused their suffering?
Against all obstacles she will try, clinging to the belief that love, like the spring, will unfailingly conquer even the coldest winter.
She never imagined she would find him like this: confined to a wheelchair on the island of Alderney. Now, the brilliant painter who once loved her is a bitter recluse with no recollection of their turbulent past.
Posing as a psychologist and concealing her connection to him, Katherine determines to restore his memory and solve the mystery of the event that resulted in her husband’s brutal death and Trayten’s disappearance. She must contend with Trayten’s resistance to recovery and the opposition of Marian, the possessive caretaker who is unwilling to let him go.
Alternately, the reader is transported back to Hampshire in 1900, where Trayten is a cynical, impoverished artist and Katherine is a privileged, rebellious debutante. Their whirlwind love affair is threatened by the perils of poverty and Reuben, the proper husband imposed by Katherine’s father. Torn between her bohemian ideals and the securities of wealth, Katherine embarks on a journey of destruction, propelling them all toward calamity.
Will Katherine bring Trayten’s memory back and find absolution for the mistakes that caused their suffering?
Against all obstacles she will try, clinging to the belief that love, like the spring, will unfailingly conquer even the coldest winter.
331 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 22, 2021
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July 11, 2021
I have to brag a little, I've known Jillian for years! It's so exciting to finally see her book published and I hope her career as a writer is successful! I enjoyed this book, even though it's more romantic than I tend to read these days (in my young adulthood this would have been right up my alley!). It was a little hard for me to get into at first, I had to get used to the cadence of her writing - it contained more poetry than I'm used to. Once I found the rhythm though, the story got interesting. I liked the main characters, especially the strong female lead role of Katherine. I'm looking forward to the next book by this author!
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