Teaser Tuesday: The Arrow Chest

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:




Grab your current read
Open to a random page
Share two "teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page

BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! Share the title & author, too, so that others can add the book to their TBR Lists!

This week my teaser comes from The Arrow Chest by Robert Parry, a haunting Victorian tale of sacrificial love between an artist and his muse, with both symbolic and literal shades of the tumultuous life of Anne Boleyn. I'm participating in a blog tour this week, so be sure to stop by on Thursday for my interview with the author and a giveaway!

I've chosen two teasers today, the first of which I particularly liked for its use of language and imagery to spooky effect! From page 93:

Yes, it could be just that kind of night,a night on which ships could go down; or upon which the watery graves of generations of mariners might open and eject their contents and their scattered, rattling bones upon the shore.

And another from page 117, which provides a glimpse of the paranoid and frenetic atmosphere that engulfs the main characters:

Painting a portrait seems the least that is on either of their minds, he realises - but then suddenly he is aware, and she is too, that there are voices in the corridor outside, perhaps others out there curious over the prolonged silence here within - and who knows whether anyone might be watching them even now! - peeping through doors ajar or even through keyholes from adjoining rooms.