A young woman entranced by the romanticism of the past finds out that the past can also be mysterious, cunning, and brutal.

Melissa Miles was born in the US, but resides in
NZ. She has had many professional iterations, acting, teaching,
film-making, but she is now focussing on her writing, and caring for
her aging menagerie.

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