Endless Love

After being attacked outside her home Rose Loxton decides enough is enough - she needs to get out of London. She falls in love with an old converted Stable Lodge in the Cotswolds and decides to rent it. But it soon becomes clear that her husband isn’t going to move with her. Part of Rose feels relieved – she knows their marriage hasn’t been right for a long time, so this is a chance for her to start over. At the age of forty, she finally feels like she can do exactly what she wants, and revisits her dreams of becoming a famous scientist. But then strange things start happening in her new home - pages turning of their own accord, sudden drops in temperature, and the sound of music seemingly coming from her empty garden. Rose decides to delve in the history of the house, and finds out that in 1908 a young servant hung himself from the Stable beams. But was it really a suicide? As Rose uncovers more she finds out that the young man, Will had been in love with Emily, the daughter of the land-owner. They broke all the conventions of the time by embarking on an affair that crossed the class barrier. It is clear they were deeply in love. So why would Will have killed himself? Was his death, in fact, the result of something more sinister? Can Rose find out the real story behind their Endless Love? Praise for James MacManus: 'A beautiful and gripping novel. A world that will entice you in and keep you reading until the end' --Kate Williams, author of The Pleasures of Men 'A wonderful book' --Imogen Robertson, author of The Paris Winter 'An engrossing, moving portrait of doomed love and genius' --The Sunday Times James MacManus is the managing director of The Times Literary Supplement. He is the author of ‘Sleep in Peace Tonight’, ‘Black Venus’ and ‘Ocean Devil: The Life and Legend of George Hogg’, which was made into a film starring Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and The Language of the Sea. He lives in London. Endeavour Press is the UK’s leading independent publisher of digital books.