<p><b><h3><i>Dear Reader, the man I love is trying to kill me...</i></h3></b><br><br><b>A spellbinding tale of secrets, entrapment and obsession f</b><b>rom the author of the BBC2 <i>Between the Covers </i>pick <i>The Dictator''s Wife.</i></b><br><br><b>''A delicious page-turning mystery within a mystery'' </b>LIZ HYDER<br><b>''A twisty treasure hunt of a novel... Utterly beguiling'' </b>LIZZIE POOK <br><b>''I</b><b>t glistens with a hint of the danger that lurks within</b><b>''</b> CHARLOTTE PHILBY<br><b>''Claustrophobic and clever storytelling'' </b>JANE SHEMILT<br>_________<br><br>1932. <b>Emily Blackwood</b>, a young adventuress and plant hunter, travels north for a curious new commission. A gentleman has written to request she catalogue his vast collection of taxidermied creatures before sale.<br><br>On arrival, Emily finds a ruined castle, its owner haunted by the memory of <b>a woman who disappeared</b> five decades before. And when she discovers the ripped pages of an old diary