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When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt she assumes its a joke She hasnt been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six an event she remembers only in her nightmares But when she arrives at Herne Hill to sort through the house--with the help of her cousin Natasha and sexy antiques dealer Nicholas--bits of memory start coming back And then she discovers a pre-Raphaelite painting hidden behind the false back of an old wardrobe and a window onto the houses shrouded history begins to open Imogen Grantham has spent nearly a decade trapped in a loveless marriage to a much older man Arthur The one bright spot in her life is her step-daughter Evie a high-spirited sixteen year old who is the closest thing to a child Imogen hopes to have But everything changes when three young painters come to see Arthurs collection of medieval artifacts including Gavin Thorne a quiet man with the unsettling ability to read Imogen better than anyone ever has When Arthur hires Gavin to paint her portrait none of them can guess what the hands of fate have set in motionFrom modern-day England to the early days of the Preraphaelite movement Lauren Willigs That Summer takes readers on an un-put-downable journey through a mysterious old house a hidden love affair and one womans search for the truth about her past--and herself.
About the Author
Lauren Willig is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Pink Carnation series and several stand alone works of historical fiction, including "The Ashford Affair", "That Summer", "The Other Daughter", and "The Forgotten Room" (co-written with Karen White and Beatriz Williams) . Her books have been translated into over a dozen languages, awarded the RITA, Booksellers Best and Golden Leaf awards, and chosen for the American Library Association's annual list of the best genre fiction. After graduating from Yale University, she embarked on a PhD in English History at Harvard before leaving academia to acquire a JD at Harvard Law while authoring her "Pink Carnation" series of Napoleonic-set novels. She lives in New York City, where she now writes full time.
