The Edge of Dark, by Pamela Hartshorne

[Pauline]

Be careful what you wish for. Jane believes in keeping her promises, but a deathbed vow sets her on a twisting path of deceit and joy that takes her from the dark secrets of Holmwood House in York to the sign of the golden lily in London's Mincing Lane. Getting what you want, Jane discovers, comes at a price. For the child that she longed for, the child she promised to love and to keep safe, turns out to be a darker spirit than she could ever have imagined.
Over four centuries later, Roz Acclam remembers nothing of the fire that killed her family - or of the brother who set it. Trying on a beautiful Elizabethan necklace found in the newly restored Holmwood House triggers disturbing memories of the past at last - but the past Roz remembers is not her own . . .
A dark, page-turning tale from Pamela Hartshorne, author of The Memory of Midnight and Time's Echo, and a perfect read for fans of Barbara Erskine and Diana Gabaldon's Outlander series.

I am reading this for week #4 - a book by an author I discovered in 2015

[Pauline]

I'm a big lover of historical fiction, particularly Tudor era ... And I love York so this book seemed to have all the elements. I have also read Pamela Hartshorne's previous book The Memory of Midnight which I enjoyed.
I did enjoy this book, but if I'm honest I found it to be rather formulaic in the "time slip novel" genre and there were few surprises. I didn't particularly warm to the main character in the present day ... I found the character in the Elizabethan dimension much more interesting. All that said though, it was still an enjoyable read with good descriptive passages about Elizabethan York and London ... Given the author is a medieval historian that is not so surprising.