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An enchanting blend of Victorian gothic romance, romantic comedy, and ghost story from the writer of the Daphne du Maurier Award-winning With This Curse! The entire year is 1873, and Sybil Ingram has come to a crossroads. Once she was the toast of the London stage, however now that she's 28 years old - very well, almost 30 - her draw isn't what it used to be, and her theater troupe is foundering. When her respected coach asks her to have the blame for his financial misdeeds, Sybil perceives no choice but to retire from the life she adores and proceed to America to marry New York City hotel magnate Alcott Lammle. But her path to happiness is cut short when Lammle dies instantly - and in financial spoil. Widowed, almost penniless, and struggling to return to Britain, the motivated diva places out to stake a state on Brooke House, an eccentric neo-Gothic manor in the wilds of the Hudson River Valley. She soon sees, however, that a ghostly presence would like her gone. A whole lot worse, her state is challenged by the most insolent, temperamental, maddeningly gorgeous man she's ever before achieved: Roderick Brooke, a once-famous previous violinist whose career concluded in a dark scandal. Soon it's a struggle of wills as Sybil complements wits - and trades barbs - with Roderick, finding herself significantly drawn to him despite her growing suspicion that there surely is a connection between him and the entity that haunts Brooke House. But an even greater threat arises in the form of the incomprehensible, powerful queen of local modern culture, Mrs. Lavinia Dove. For reasons that Sybil can't envision, Mrs. Dove is set to oust Sybil from her sphere...and the measures to which she'll go are chilling indeed. By turns incomprehensible and moving, gleaming and spooky, Nocturne for a Widow follows a spirited heroine through ventures in life, love, and loss of life. From the bright colored theatrical world of late-Victorian London to the American wilderness, Sybil's vacations will test her mettle - and her heart.
