"[...] they reached two stone gate piers topped with griffins, marking the entrance to a long gravel drive. As they walked along it, the dark shape of the mansion rose out of the gloom before them, a wide, imposing grey-stone building, two flights of steps running up to the door. This must be the house she had seen from the boat, but at this distance it seemed not so much a house as a fortress: the turret appearing to swell into the darkness. There was something oddly familiar about it too, like a picture in a storybook she had read as a child."
1857, the Isle of Skye. Audrey Hart has come to Lanerly Hall in answer to a newspaper advertisement: "Lady folklorist seeks assistant."
Anna Mazzola's The Story Keeper sounds promising, don't you think?
