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Mortal Fire (Secret of the Journal) (Kindle Edition)

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When Emma D’Eresby – a 29 year-old, self-contained Professor of History – leaves her Cambridge college for a post in an exclusive university in Maine, USA, she hopes to learn more about a curious 17th-century journal in the College library. Instead, it leads her to a secret that should never have been uncovered. In the States, Emma meets the enigmatic 33-year-old surgeon, Matthew Lynes, a quiet and thoughtful widower. Driven to learn more about him, Emma takes the unique journal from the College library in which she believes there are clues to his family’s English past. Meanwhile, the sinister Professor Kort Staahl mounts a psychotic attack on her. Matthew’s courageous intervention saves her, but as he nurses her back to health, his unusual attributes raise questions he is unwilling to answer. As Part One ends, she returns to her claustrophobic family, avoiding her domineering father and wrestling with despair … C F Dunn
Mortal Fire (The Secret of the Journal)
Mortal Fire (The Secret of the Journal)
By C. F. Dunn (Monarch Books)
Release date: May 18, 2012
If I could say one thing. Read this!’ – Colin Dexter Emma, a young and self-contained professor of history, leaves Cambridge for a post in an exclusive university in the USA, intent on finding a long-overlooked 17th century journal. Bound within its pages are secrets that threaten to bring Emma into conflict with the present; but can she discover the truth – and will she believe it? ‘The sense of growing menace will have readers gripping the edge of their seats.
 
 
Review – Mortal Fire
Reviewed by Victor Gentile
C. F. Dunn is an extremely talented writer who really knows how to tell a story that will grab you and keep you flipping pages until you find out what is going on