Newly widowed and childless, 36 year old Mara Scott has lost her storybook ending. She retreats from her grief by moving out of a city apartment to the gatehouse of a nineteenth century mansion in a pastoral suburb. The mansion's history reveals another young woman, Isabel, who lived a hundred years prior and who also suffered from loss.Mara discovers that "brondwoodmead" means "sword in the meadow," and that the mansion was given that name because...