I've been searching for this book for years. I read it probably six years our so ago and cannot recall the name. The plot is about a widowed countess fleeting court and going back to her home town in the country where she grew up with her father. She takes with her a mirror with the counts crest on the back. She goes home to stay in her shack where she used to live with her father. Her neighbor is a man who m lives in a manor called blood hall because two lovers were executed on the front steps (two lovers that are benevolent ghost in the manor now). He is engaged to another woman, however invites the countess to stay with them after she is injured in a carriage accident. Eventually the man realizes who she isfrom the crest on her Miro and recall a that they know each other because he used to help get father who was the village school teacher and he saved her from being raped. Please help! Its driving me crazy!
Please help! Its driving me crazy!