![]() ![]() Years pass, and Eleanor Harper has been hand-picked to take over for the retiring benefactress, Penelope Dare. Its benefactor, Chester Dare, turned it into Cliffside Manor, an artists' recluse, and after much sanitizing, remodeling and remarketing, the manor became a refuge where distinguished fellows could spend weeks on creative sabbatical. (Be sure to read the author's notes evidently there was such a sanatorium in Bayfield, Wis., which gave author Webb a trove of lore to draw from.) As the patients either died or were cured, and as modern medicine caught up to the consumptive plague, the sanatorium lost its purpose. So begins the haunting story of the Dare family, philanthropists who run a TB clinic on the scale of Glensheen Mansion overlooking the dark and gloomy lake. She soon realizes that they are indeed very sick - and she is not. ![]() Abandoned by her wealthy father and essentially left to die, she tries to make friends with other patients in the children's ward. A young girl has been dropped off at a tuberculosis sanatorium on the jagged shore of Lake Superior. This tantalizing Gothic-style novel opens with a flashback to 1952. ![]()
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