This title was previously called " The Winter Sea" When bestselling author Carrie Mc Clelland visits the windswept ruins of Slains Castle she is enchanted by the stark & beautiful Scottish landscape The area is strangely familiar to her but she puts aside her faint sense of unease to begin her new novel using the castle as her setting & one of her own ancestors Sophia as her heroine Then Carrie realizes her writing is taking on a life of its own & the lines between fact & fiction become increasingly blurred As Sophia's memories draw Carrie more deeply into the intrigue of 1708 she discovers a captivating love story lost in time After three hundred years " Sophia's Secret" must be told