This mystical tale of two women born a century apart, but whose destinies are mysteriously linked by long held secrets is reminscent of The French Lieutenant’s Woman and Outlander. In 1996, newly divorced TV journalist Morgan Reed is at a personal and professional low. Escaping to pastoral Bucks County, she impulsively buys an old haunted church rectory and is drawn into creating a documentary about the Pennsylvania Impressionist movement which was born in the area a century earlier. Morgan also gets pulled into an unsettling love affair with her fellow filmmaker, which raises the ire of her adult son. In 1895, in the same rectory, Evangeline Laury, the beautiful and restless wife of a zealot preacher is torn between her role as obedient wife and her birth as a talented painter in the hands of a charismatic local Impressionist who soon becomes her lover and soul mate. Evangeline struggles with her duties, but the desire for her lover and her art come at a cost, and an unspeakable tragedy makes her a virtual prisoner of the rectory. Bound together as they try to martial universal forces beyond their control, Morgan in 1996 and Evangeline in 1895 both struggle to fulfill their needs for creative expression, true love and familial duty. As Morgan uncovers the drama that unfolded in the old house 100 years earlier, the two women’s pasts meld into the present, igniting karmic embers and bringing a shuddering retribution. Where does one story end and the other begin?
Disillusioned by career reversals and my recent divorce, I pulled up stakes and moved to a tiny historic village in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. There I was captivated by the exquisite beauty of the landscapes and the history of the local Pennsylvania Impressionists, Additionally the mystically charged area continues to inspire artists and writers of all genres. I was one of them. My muse compelled me to write the quintessential love story. It would be the book that I wanted to read!
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