![]() ![]() These novels are published anonymously and her publisher does not give out her identity to anyone who asks - no matter how desperate they are. She's on her way to her publisher to drop of the latest manuscript for a children's novel. It's gone so fast that she thinks she may have dreamed it, but her aunt, the eccentric Miss Winsham, tells her that it does happen: Tessa's older sister saw her husband's face in the locket (aka, the plot of the first book in the trilogy). She holds the locket and makes a rather wistful wish, and when she opens it, she sees the flash of a beautiful face. ![]() There is a locket that has been handed down to the girls in the Barlow family that is accompanied by a legend: "The legend says that when the locket is yours and you hold it, as yours, for the first time and wish, when you open it you will see the face of the man you are to marry." Theresa is skeptical, but curious. ![]() The conceit shows itself in the very first chapter. ![]() The first thing to mention is that this is the second book of a trilogy called The Magic Locket, which I didn't discover until I registered this book on Goodreads. I found this story to be utterly charming and exactly what I was looking for. This story certainly hit the spot for me - a wonderful escape into a gentle story about two people who, for their own reasons, don't trust their ability to love, at least not romantically. ![]()
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