More treasured than the painted lilies and golden roses on the front of the fan were these words scrawled by hand on its lining: Beneath the words was an image of a lady’s fan, extended to show the white satin stretched over whalebone ribs, its leash made of silk cord with a tassel curved upward like a tiger’s tail. Lost Treasures of the Nineteenth Century, it read, the dark print striking against the shimmering orange background. I stepped from the cab, unable to wait a second more, and my eye was drawn immediately to the tall banner hanging overhead. The driver turned to shrug at me and Luke as though to say we could go no farther as hundreds of people streamed toward the arched entry in a blur of color and movement like a school of fish. We were nearly at the Victoria and Albert Museum when we saw the crowds spilling out of the entrance and across Cromwell Street, forcing our taxi to stop in the middle of the road. With the stunningly imaginative storytelling and rich characterizations that fascinated readers worldwide and made The Taker a singular and memorable literary debut and an international sensation, Alma Katsu once again delivers “a powerful evocation of the dark side of romantic love” ( Publishers Weekly) in her breathtaking new novel. And she has no idea how she will save herself. He’s free- and he will come looking for her. But, while viewing these items at an exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Lanore suddenly is aware that the thing she’s been dreading for two hundred years has caught up to her: Adair has escaped from his prison. She has given away the treasures she’s collected over her many lifetimes in order to purge her past and clear the way for a future with her new lover, Luke Findley. Now, two hundred years after imprisoning Adair, Lanore is trying to atone for her sins. He is a monster in the flesh, and he wants Lanore to love him for all of time. And though he is handsome and charming, behind Adair’s seductive façade is the stuff of nightmares.
He used his mysterious, otherworldly powers to give her eternal life, but Lanore learned too late that there was a price for this gift: to spend eternity with him. She had no choice but to entomb Adair, her nemesis, to save Jonathan, the boy she grew up with in a remote Maine town in the early 1800s and the man she thought she would be with forever. Including imprisoning the man who loves her behind a wall of brick and stone. Lanore McIlvrae is the kind of woman who will do anything for love. In this “rich, satisfying, and gorgeously written sequel” ( Chapters) to her acclaimed debut novel, The Taker, Alma Katsu pairs a mysteriously alluring young woman with an ER doctor from rural Maine on a harrowing, passion-fueled chase that transcends the boundaries of time.
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