"Simon Watson, a young librarian on the verge of losing his job, lives alone on the Long Island Sound in his family home, a house perched on the edge of a bluff, that is slowly crumbling toward the sea ... On a day in late June, Simon receives a mysterious package from an antiquarian bookseller. The book tells the story of Amos and Evangeline, doomed lovers who lived and worked in a traveling circus more than two hundred years ago ... Why does his grandmother's name, Verona Bonn, appear in this book? ... Could there possibly be some kind of curse on his family--and could Enola (his sister), who has suddenly turned up at home for the first time in six years, risk the same fate in just a few weeks?"--Provided by publisher.
