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Here’s what Peter Rowlands says about A Knock at the Door on his own website, www.peterrowlands.com.
When a bedraggled woman turns up on Rory Cavenham’s doorstep in the middle of a storm, convinced that the year is 1972, he’s torn. Recent troubling experiences have left him scarred and wary of involvement, yet he can’t help feeling touched by her strange plight. But she claims she’s lost her memory, so she can’t explain her situation.
Before he knows it, she’s slipped into his life – still an enigma, but someone he feels he must help. However, she’s frightened of unspecified pursuers, so he has to keep her presence under the radar. Gradually he’s drawn to her, but he starts to wonder whether he’s exploiting her or she’s exploiting him.
Their efforts to trace her background eventually unearth not one but two women with a connection to her – one in the present day, the other in the past. But where do their lives intersect, and how can she be both of them at once? When the imagined pursuers turn out to be all too real, the search turns into a race to resolve this brain-teasing paradox before the pursuers find them.