Within its four walls lay
a secret that would last
a lifetime.

Summer 1924: On the night of a glittering Society party, by the lake of a grand
English country house, a young poet takes his life. The only witnesses, sisters
Hannah and Emmeline Hartford, will never speak to each other again.

Winter 1999: Grace Bradley, 98, onetime housemaid
of Riverton Manor,is visited by a young director making
a film about the poet’s suicide. Ghosts awaken and memories, long-consigned to the dark reaches of Grace’s mind, begin to sneak back through the cracks. A shocking secret threatens to emerge; something history has forgotten but Grace never could.

Set as the war-shattered Edwardian summer surrenders to the decadent twenties, The House at Riverton is a thrilling mystery and a compelling love story.

To hear Kate talk about writing The House at Riverton/The Shifting Fog, including some of the early ideas and inspirations, you can go here.