What's the Name of That Book??? discussion
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Bump. Also I forgot to add that when I found the post where the other person was looking for this book, they said that fake-Shana was pregnant.Also, I said in the beginning that the heroine's name was Shana. I think that's not really the case, and that her mother raised her with a different name (which I can't remember). So when Shane pops out of the cathedral and calls her "Shana" she's like "nope".
Daphne, do have the link to the other post from the person also looking for this book? There may be something in the post that helps this one, and vice versa.
Well, it's on another forum, Abebooks. I don't know if it's visible if people aren't signed up there. Here's a link:http://forums.abebooks.com/discussion...
I think this book is Falconlough
I searched on OpenLibrary and these quotes from inside the book showed up:
- "… Shana, twin sister to Shane the Proud. All of my life I had been intrigued by the past, enamored of the heroes of history, seeing the men of those bygone…"
- "There were two Shana's," Taylor said. "Shane's true twin, and Old Shane's bastard child."
I wasn't able to checkout the digital copy on OpenLibrary to do a quick search through the book, however.
Also, on the Google Books page, some of the keywords for Falconlough is "Shane" and "Shana"
http://books.google.com/books/about/F...
By the way, Daphne, your description of the book was great. The fact that you remembered the characters' names and that it was a Gothic novel really helped with the search.
OMG I'm sure that's it, with the whole "chapel" quote on the Goodreads page and all. Thank you so much!
I read it at least 15 years ago -- I think it's older than that though, from the 70's or something, a thin Gothic paperback. A woman named Shana has just lost her parents and is visiting a cathedral (?) where she bumps into a man named Shane. They look exactly alike (except for male/female), and Shane had a twin sister Shana who is missing, so he thinks it's her. She goes back to visit his family mansion/castle, which is up on some sort of crag near the ocean. I don't remember much -- there's at least one room with some sort of nifty paving, flagstones or something. And other family members (cousins, etc.) live there. Also there is a doctor (older than Shane?) who lives in town nearby, and is a family friend.
I'll add the ending, in case it helps. Turns out there were two Shanas -- our heroine is Shane's actual twin. Her mother broke up with Lord whoever, and ran off to raise her daughter, leaving her son Shane behind, and never telling the heroine anything about this stuff. Meanwhile, an evil lady (housekeeper?) decided to pretend that her daughter (Lord whoever's illegitimate daughter, looks a lot like the real Shana) was actually Shana. So fake-Shana has been living there all this time, till she recently disappeared. Fake-Shana turns up later in the book; she's been hiding out in the big castle, she's nuts and tries to kill people, and dies (for real this time; I think she falls off the crag). Eventually our heroine, the real Shana, marries the doctor.