The White Octopus Hotel

Journey to a magical hotel in the Swiss Alps in this spellbinding historical romance blending mystery, art, romance and time travel._________________________________<BR><BR>'A captivating tapestry of love, tragedy, and time.' Cassandra Clare, bestselling author of Swordcatcher<BR>'An exquisite, fantastical puzzle box of a novel.' Kelly Link, bestselling author of The Book of Love<BR>'Beautiful and bittersweet time travel fantasy' Publishers' Weekly<BR><BR>_________________________________<BR>BEHIND EVERY DOOR, A SECOND CHANCE<BR>'Have you travelled a long way?' she asked carefully.<BR>A smile twitched at the corner of his mouth. 'Well, yes," he said slowly. 'Yes, you could say that. But it was worth the wait.'<BR><BR>London, 2015<BR><BR>When reclusive art appraiser Eve Shaw shakes the hand of a silver-haired gentleman in her London office, the warmth of his palm sends a spark through her.<BR><BR>His name is Max Everly - curiously, the same name as Eve's favourite composer, born one hundred sixteen years prior. And she can't shake the feeling that she's held his hand before . . . but where, and when?<BR><BR>The White Octopus Hotel, 1935<BR><BR>Decades earlier, high in the snowy Swiss Alps, Eve and a young Max Everly wander the winding halls of the grand belle epoque White Octopus Hotel, lost in time.<BR><BR>Each of them has been through the trenches - Eve in a family accident and Max on the battlefields of the Great War - but for an impossible moment, love and healing are just a room away . . . if only they have the courage to step through the door.<BR><BR>_________________________________<BR><BR>READERS LOVE THE WHITE OCTOPUS HOTEL<BR>'Five gloriously mind-bending, time-traveling stars from me!'<BR><BR>'Gorgeous GORGEOUS book. I'm in love'<BR><BR>'I'll be thinking about this one for a long time.'<BR><BR>'An exciting, touching, and hopeful magical love story'<BR><BR>'Alexandra Bell owns a slice of my heart.'<BR>