Maiden's Veil
In the remote English countryside, tapestry weaver Clarinda Asher performs an ancient fertility ritual with a local landed man—a sacred union that ignites a firestorm and has her banished to a lonely hilltop above her village.Three hundred years later, American Jess Barlow arrives in Maidenvale as the village celebrates a diluted version of that long-ago holy day. Together with the fair's King of the May, Jess rediscovers—and ultimately reenacts—the pagan rite, which soon rips their lives apart. But the ritual's potency has been revived, and events take an unexpected turn.
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Another book that goes back and forth between two story lines. But I really was only interested in one of the stories, and it seemed to be the one that earned fewer pages. Between disliking one of the stories (Don't try to make me root for two people engaged in an adulterous relationship by repeating that the cheating man's wife smokes, drinks and eats meat. You're just going to make me like her more.) and the use of flashbacks and repeating events from different points of view, this book really dragged for me. 2.5 stars because about 50 percent of the book is interesting and engaging.
