Windwalker

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Description for WINDWALKER by Natasha Mostert: Justine is a photographer and adventurer with a tragic past. Feeling the weight of her secrets and history, she takes the job of care taker at a Palladian mansion in the English countryside. The house is almost derelict, but it feels to her as though trapped within it are the whispered words and silent dreams of its past occupants.She becomes obsessed with the last family to own the house--a family ripped apart after a violent argument left one brother dead and the other, Adam, a fugitive. Driven to photograph the house, Justine discovers ghostly images in her pictures, images she knows she did not record. Even more unsettling, she becomes aware that someone is sharing her obsession with Adam and is stalking her, watching her.Halfway around the world, Adam writes letters to a woman he's dreamed about since he was a child, but has never met. One day he sees a picture in a magazine--it is Justine. That she's living in his old family home is a coincidence he cannot ignore. Drawn to his mystery woman, Adam leaves his place of exile and risks all to satisfy his yearning for her.Adam believes he and Justine are soul mates--but will they be able to overcome their pasts and defy the dangers awaiting them to find a future? Show more