Palmyra - Hardcoverby Karen Barrow (Author) I used to think the past was dead and gone, that the passage of time erased memories An unexpected visitor triggers buried memories of the mysterious deaths that plagued a family on the island of Trinidad at the turn of the 20th century. The "Great House," now a near ruin, was eighty years earlier the center of a prosperous French Creole cocoa estate, where Joe, the housekeeper's son, bore witness to half understood incidents