No one will listen to her fantastic story of marriage to the love of her life and their fateful few days together. To be told she has been delirious since returning from the woods on the night of the festival, a ravaged wreck, driven half insane by the terrible crimes inflicted on her.
This time our couple are determined to consummate their love, so, within just a couple of days, they are married ready, willing and able to embark on a honeymoon blissfully ensconced in the very same lodge they spent that fateful first night together.Īnd then, just a few days later, Helena wakes up.
Of course she cannot get her handsome stranger, who calls himself Siegfried, out of her mind, so imagine her delight when once again they meet up during a mid-summer festival of madness known locally as the Night of the Seventh Moon. But, thanks to the quick thinking and eagle eye of the trusty old servant Hildegarde, her honour is kept intact and the very next day she is delivered safe and sound back into the arms of the worried nuns entrusted to look after her. What follows is a night of romance and intrigue where our innocent Helena very nearly loses more than her heart. From out of nowhere a tall, handsome stranger appears to carry her away into the ‘safety’ of his hunting lodge. The scene is set when our teenage heroine wanders off from her convent school picnic and finds herself lost in the deep dark woods of Southern Germany. I saw this in our local secondhand book store and couldn’t resist the cover so thought I’d give it a go. My mum was a big fan of Historical Romances by writers like Anna Seyton and Victoria Holt so even today I get a ‘grown up’ feeling reading these books. And as Helena draws near to the source of the evil that nurses them, she begins to feel that there will be no happy ending to her story. The passionate love that grows between Helena and her rescuer seems destined to inspire hatred, treachery, even murder in others. So, lost in the forest one day, she feels little surprise when a handsome stranger appears and leads her to safety – there is a Prince Charming in all good fairy stories.īut this idyll suddenly becomes a nightmare. Helena Trant has always felt a special fascination for the myths and legends of Southern Germany, where she is living.
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