The White Octopus Hotel

<h2><b>Journey to a magical hotel in the Swiss Alps in this spellbinding historical romance blending mystery, art, romance and time travel.</b></h2><p>_________________________________</p><p><Br><b>'A captivating tapestry of love, tragedy, and time.'</b> Cassandra Clare, bestselling author of <i>Swordcatcher</i><Br><b>'An exquisite, fantastical puzzle box of a novel.'</b> Kelly Link, bestselling author of <i>The Book of Love</i><Br><b>'Beautiful and bittersweet time travel fantasy' </b><i>Publishers' Weekly</i></p><p>_________________________________</p><h1>BEHIND EVERY DOOR, A SECOND CHANCE</h1><p><Br><i>‘Have you travelled a long way?’ she asked carefully.</i><Br><i>A smile twitched at the corner of his mouth. ‘Well, yes,” he said slowly. ‘Yes, you could say that. But it was worth the wait.’</i></p><p><b>London, 2015</b></p><p>When reclusive art appraiser Eve Shaw shakes the hand of a silver-haired gentleman in her London office, the warmth of his palm sends a spark through her.</p><p>His name is Max Everly – curiously, the same name as Eve’s favourite composer, born one hundred sixteen years prior. And she can’t shake the feeling that she’s held his hand before . . . but where, and when?</p><p><b>The White Octopus Hotel, 1935</b></p><p>Decades earlier, high in the snowy Swiss Alps, Eve and a young Max Everly wander the winding halls of the grand belle epoque White Octopus Hotel, lost in time.</p><p>Each of them has been through the trenches – Eve in a family accident and Max on the battlefields of the Great War – but for an impossible moment, love and healing are just a room away . . . if only they have the courage to step through the door.</p><p>_________________________________</p><h2><Br><b>READERS LOVE <i>THE WHITE OCTOPUS HOTEL</i></b></h2><p><Br>'Five gloriously mind-bending, time-traveling stars from me!'</p><p>'Gorgeous GORGEOUS book. I'm in love'</p><p>'I’ll be thinking about this one for a long time.'</p><p>'An exciting, touching, and hopeful magical love story'</p><p>'Alexandra Bell owns a slice of my heart.'</p>