Elissa Wyatt - Stuart Shotwell

Set in the valley of Deepclough in the Cotswolds, England, in 1811-1813, Elissa Wyatt is the story of a woman who grows beyond her given roles of daughter and sister, becoming in addition a lover and a seeker. She is meanwhile stalked by darkness in her own home and on the margins of the land, the land where the garden stands: the garden, with its song, its peace, and its fruitfulness. When the good suddenly seem to be evil, when the honest lie, she is swept toward disaster on a current greater than her power to resist. Only the pain of the truth can liberate her, and only her moral courage and her intellect enable her to bend that bitter truth toward salvation. Ultimately, Elissa Wyatt is a tale about all of us . . . at Aeon's End.