num_pages: 591
description: This unforgettable story of undying love combines mysticism, suspense, mystery, and romance into a web of good and evil that stretches from 16th-century England to the present day. Richard Marsdon marries a young American woman named Celia, brings her to live at his English estate, and all seems to be going well. But now Richard has become withdrawn, and Celia is constantly haunted by a vague dread. When she suffers a breakdown and wavers between life and death, a wise doctor realizes that only by forcing Celia to relive her past can he enable her to escape her illness. Celia travels back 400 years in time to her past life as a beautiful but doomed servant. Through her eyes, we see the England of the Tudors, torn by religious strife, and experience all the pageantry, lustiness, and cruelty of the age. As in other historical romance titles by this author, the past comes alive in this flamboyant classic novel.
language: English
title: Green Darkness
titlecomplete: Green Darkness (Rediscovered Classics)
characters: Celia de Bohun, Edward VI of England, Sir Anthony Browne, Elizabeth I of England, Lily Taylor, Richard Marsdon, Lady Ursula Southwell, Mary I of England, Emma Allen, Magdalen Dacre, Dr. Akananda, Lady Jane Grey, Stephen Marsdon, Celia Marsdon
genres: Historical, Historical Fiction, Gothic, Time Travel, Fantasy, Historical Romance, British Literature, Romance, Fiction, Paranormal
ratings_count: 6376
publisher: Chicago Review Press