ABOUT THE BOOK
She had arranged to meet
her husband in Northern Ireland for a second honeymoon, but when Charleigh
arrives at the remote castle, she receives a message that he won’t be
coming—and that he’s leaving her for another woman. Stranded for the weekend by
a snowstorm that has blocked all access to the castle, she finds herself three
thousand miles from home in a country she knows nothing about.
She is soon joined by
Sean Bracken, the great-grandson of Laird Bracken, the original owner of the
castle, and she finds herself falling quickly and madly in love with him.
There’s just one problem: he’s dead.
As the castle begins to
come alive with secrets from centuries past, she finds herself trapped between
parallel worlds. Caught up in a mass haunting, she can no longer recognize the
line between the living and the dead. Now she’s discovering that her appearance
there wasn’t by accident—and it will change her life forever.
AN EXCERPT
“What’s happening?” Charleigh whispered.
Her throat had grown dry and her voice was hoarse with tension. Though she
attempted to keep her tone low so they would remain unobserved, it sounded loud
and harsh in the strident atmosphere that seemed suddenly to have gripped the
village. She felt anxiety growing deep within her and the urge to get back to
the castle burgeoned with ferocity and urgency; but she realized with a
sickening sensation in the pit of her soul that the growing inharmonious
throngs were between them and the sanctuary of her room.
“Do not be afraid, m’ Leah,” Sean
answered. He did not whisper but his voice was deep and taut. After a moment,
he said, “They are reenacting an event that occurred… some time ago.”
“You have witnessed them, then?”
“Yes. I find them very interesting…” She
forced the words past her dry lips. “They reenact battles from the Civil War
and the Revolutionary War, mainly.”
As the churning skies turned to the
color of tar, Charleigh could discern the sources of the strange glow: they
were torches held aloft by dozens of people. More were joining them, stragglers
rushing from the village to catch up, while they began to spread apart in a
more orderly column as they converged on the flat land they’d crossed on their
way into the village. One man in the forefront stopped and began pointing and
directing those that followed.
“These
reenactments,” Sean continued, “were the people alive?”
DREAM CAST
We asked p.m.terrell if her book was made into a movie, who would she envision playing the characters? Here is her response:
The actor I would select
for the role of the Irish ghost, Sean Bracken, is an easy one. Hands down, it
would be Santiago Cabrera. Currently, he is starring as Aramis in BBC’s series,
The Musketeers, in which he and Queen Anne have lit up the screen in romance
Though Santiago was born
in Venezuela, he grew up in London, Madrid, Toronto and Romania.
The role of Charleigh is
a bit more difficult. She begins as a woman around 40 who, by her own
admission, has a thickening middle and prematurely platinum hair. I pictured a
young Judi Dench: classy and classic, proper yet passionate, a woman abandoned
by her husband but able to fall in love almost immediately with the Laird of
Brackenridge Castle, a man who passed away more than a hundred years earlier.
SPECIAL LINKS
Author’s website: www.pmterrell.com
Twitter: @pmterrell
Facebook:
author.p.m.terrell
A beautiful Celtic
Butterfly Suncatcher similar to the one mentioned in the book, symbolizing both
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