Houses of Stone — Barbara Michaels

FEAR AND DESIRE ENTWINED IN THE SHADOWS OF THE PAST...

It was a career-making discovery for English professor Karen Holloway: a battered, faded manuscript, the "lost masterpiece" of a 19th-century poet called Ismene. Almost obsessively, Karen delves into her research to unmask the woman behind the mysterious name. But the clues she seeks are hidden in the poet's own words - as a ghost story unfolds before her, a tormented voice from the past...