About the book: 2022 / 1805. Amber Thomson, a London theater actress, falls in love with Viscount Frederick Fryers. Young people decide to escape and secretly marry, hiding it from their relatives. Frederick brings Amber to the secluded estate of Carlisle Hall, where the girl is not allowed to live in peace not only by a militant housekeeper, but also by ghosts. 2019. After Maud is abandoned by her lover at the altar, she leaves for Italy, where she meets the Earl of Carlisle. Two weeks later, Earl Carlisle asks the girl to marry him and she agrees. Arthur Carlyle brings Maud to his Cornish estate, Carlyle Hall, where decaying walls, mysterious ghosts and old family secrets await Maud. The lives of Amber and Maud are not connected in any way, but their destinies are closely intertwined. While one is immersed in the idyll of family happiness, the second is trying to unravel a tangle of mysteries. However, everything here is far from what it seems at first glance..