The Lute and the Glove

Back in San Francisco, Anne Carey had longed to visit the Tudor mansion in Devon that had belonged to her forbears for generations. But when she returns to her English heritage, Carey Reach, she experiences strange events that cannot be explained to a neighbor, crippled John Templeton. For Anne, raised in Tudor history by her learned father, is fascinated by the Octagon Room, a mysterious grave, and recurring glimpses of the drama between Althea and Edward Courtenay, who aspired to the throne of England. She does not share her secrets with John or her housekeeper, and her fancies become out of control as she identifies more and more with the other, past world that beckons her. When she becomes weirdly indivisible from the happenings of other times, finishing her father's book is a ready excuse for privacy to visit the Octagon Room and its visions.