Until the Dawn tells the story of Sophie van Riijin. Sophie lives in the Hudson River Valley in the late 1800s. In the small island where she lives is a mansion that was abounded by the family nearly 60 years ago. The Vandermark family believes their family home is curses. There has been mysterious deaths and none of the females in the family lived very long.
Sophie has set up a weather station on the roof of the mansion and makes daily reports to the new Weather Bureau that has been created. Out of the blue one day heir to the family estate Quentin shows up with his son Pieter with the intention of destroying the mansion on the orders of his grandfather Nickolaas.
When the truth of what has been happening at the mansion when no family has been living there, Quentin immediately fires the two staff who have been taking care of the mansion and orders Sophie to stay away. Sophie is able to convince him to hire her as cook and eventually re-hire the staff. When Nickolaas shows up the truth of the mansion slowly starts to come out. Not out does the truth of the mansion comes out, but so does the reason for the wealth of the family.
Sophie works hard to not only save the mansion but to also change Quentin in the way he feels about life and his relationship with his son.
Ms. Camden does a remarkable job. You can almost see the beauty of the mansion and the surrounding areas. Sophie's sunny disposition is a bright part of the story. You feel Quentin's agony through the constant pain he is and her desire to help him. Ms Camden draws you into each character. I very much enjoyed this book and it was very hard to put down!
"Book has been provided courtesy of Baker Publishing Group and Graf-Martin Communications, Inc." I was not required to write a positive
review. The opinions I have expressed
are entirely my own.
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