The leavetaking

"Comes a dark stranger ... Isobel Penrose shared an idyllic life at charming, picturesque Emberside Grange with her widowed father and Lydia, her vivacious older cousin. Then one day, a tall, dark stranger invaded their lives. He called himself Simeon Graw, and there was something disturbing about the gifted portrait artist in the flowing ebony cape. He seemed to have appeared out of nowhere, accompanied by a silent woman clad in black. Suddenly...