Jane Johnson is a woman of her own mind. She decided to do some research in Morocco to make this book more authentic and met the love of her life. She gave up her office job and now spends half her time in Cornwall and the other half in her husband’s Morocco in the moutains where they run a cafe together. She put her heart and soul into this book and it truly shows.
Ms. Johnson may have had a whim from a family story but this novel is so much more than that. I was truly impressed with how much research she had to have done to make quite a bit of the story accurate. It is full of adventure, history, romance and twists that will keep you turning pages. Julia and Cat may live in different time periods but they both want the same things, which made this book so extraordinary. I dreamed along with Julia as she read Cat’s story never dreaming what the ending turned out to be. I loved the travel between present day and seventeenth century. Ms. Johnson does not miss a beat in this story and is so well written. I never was confused once and this is one book I will not let go. I might even re-visit it again.
