“Mist of Midnight” by Sandra Byrd book review / Lace Bookmark giveaway

This is my first book that I’ve read by Sandra Byrd and I absolutely loved it! Rebecca Ravenshaw moves to India with her family from England, at a very young age. After their deaths she returns to her family home in England, only to find out a woman pretending to be Rebecca had recently died in the home. Now everyone wants to know who Rebecca is, and who was the woman pretending to be Rebecca months earlier? What do the servants know and what is Captain Luke hiding?

This story kept me guessing and although it took me a couple days to read, I had a hard time putting it down because I wanted to finish it right away. I learned alot about England and India history while reading this clean, christian book which takes place during the year 1858. I highly recommend reading this book if you like historical, dramatic fiction!

Synopsis
In the first of a brand-new series set in Victorian England, a young woman returns home from India after the death of her family to discover her identity and inheritance are challenged by the man who holds her future in his hands.

Rebecca Ravenshaw, daughter of missionaries, spent most of her life in India. Following the death of her family in the Indian Mutiny, Rebecca returns to claim her family estate in Hampshire, England. Upon her return, people are surprised to see her…and highly suspicious. Less than a year earlier, an imposter had arrived with an Indian servant and assumed not only Rebecca’s name, but her home and incomes.

That pretender died within months of her arrival; the servant fled to London as the young woman was hastily buried at midnight. The locals believe that perhaps she, Rebecca, is the real imposter. Her home and her father’s investments reverted to a distant relative, the darkly charming Captain Luke Whitfield, who quickly took over. Against her best intentions, Rebecca begins to fall in love with Luke, but she is forced to question his motives—does he love her or does he just want Headbourne House? If Luke is simply after the property, as everyone suspects, will she suffer a similar fate as the first “Rebecca”?

A captivating Gothic love story set against a backdrop of intrigue and danger, Mist of Midnight will leave you breathless.

Link to Mist of Midnight on the Simon and Schuster/Howard Books Website:
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Mist-of-Midnight/Sandra-Byrd/The-Daughters-of-Hampshire/9781476717869

About the author:
Sandra Byrd is a best-selling author and has earned Library Journal’s Best Books of the year pick twice, in 2011 for To Die For: A Novel of Anne Boleyn, and in 2012 for The Secret Keeper: A Novel of Kateryn Parr. She’s twice been a Christy Award finalist, for To Die For and for Let Them Eat Cake: A Novel. Roses Have Thorns: A Novel of Elizabeth I published April 2013

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I received an advanced copy of this book complimentary for blog and social media review. All opinions are my own.

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