Kaytee Cobb

But do not fear.

This is not a dual timeline novel.

It only gently explores the ways that historical figures are shown in very different lights, depending on who is telling the story.

How could we get this story told by her guardian and also this one historically?

Where could that difference have come from?

Marguerite's story is difficult.

It's isolation on an island.

It's harrowing.

It's page turning to the extreme.

There's plenty of license taken because like I said, it's only two brief historical snippets.

And then she turned it into a lush 350 page novel.

It's descriptive.

It's at times visceral.

And it is heartbreaking.

We are going to lose a number of characters here.

It was exceptional for me, though.

Once I got into past that preface part, basically, where we're figuring out who Marguerite is onto the island, I could not put it down.

Despite the cover, which features an isolated woman looking over a cliff to a storm-tossed sea, I didn't know what I was getting into in this book.

I was like, what is this about?

And that's what the cover tells me it's about.