This is one of those books that you can't put down, yet you don't want it to finish. When Eva Ward's sister, Katrina dies, Eva returns with Katrina's ashes to lay her to rest at Trelowarth, the manor house at Polpelly in Cornwall, that her family had visited every year to stay with George and Claire Hallett, friends of her parents. It was here that she and Katrina enjoyed long summer days in the company of Mark and Susan his younger sister, and it is here that Eva begins to deal with the grief and sadness caused by her sister's death. Kearlsey brings Cornwall to life in her prose and you can almost feel yourself there with Eva and the Hallets.

As Eva throws herself into helping Susan set up the new Tea Room, she and friend Felicity, are aiming to run at Trelowarth, she begins to find herself in an other Trelowarth. Convinced at first that she is having hallucinations, it takes an encounter with Daniel Butler and his friend Feargal O'Cleary to convince herself that she really is visiting Trelowarth in 1715. Daniel and his brother Jack are free traders, making their living trading contraband goods with France, but that isn't what makes the Constable, a nasty piece of work called Creed, want to arrest them, but the fact that they are for the young pretender James instead of King George who has just come to the English Throne.

As Eva finds herself torn between the Trelowarth of her friends and that of 1715, she finds herself falling in love with Daniel Butler and must face a decision whether to leave Trelowarth and her visits to Daniel, or to stay and try and make a life with him.

An absolutely brilliant time slip novel that brings alive both versions of Trelowarth and confirms Kearlsey once again as a magnificent author.