A
wonderful, intriguing Victorian mystery romance that pulls you in. I could not
put this one down!
As a
young girl, Pippa Ewell lived on an island with her sculptor father and sickly
mother and her older and more beautiful sister, Francine, who she loved. When
the sisters were still young, their father and mother died and they were sent
to London to live with their stern grandfather in the forbidding Greystone
Manor.
Their
grandfather planned to marry Francine to his heir, a rather dour vicar related
to the family. But she rebelled and married a baron from Bavaria in Germany who
swept her away from England. Years later, Pippa discovers her sister has been murdered
at the same time another mysterious Bavarian, Conrad, shows up and seduces her and
asks her to become his mistress. Pippa refuses and he returns to his own
country.
Pippa
wants to learn the truth of Francine’s death and to find out what happened to
her young son. When she inherits a small fortune from her grandmother, Pippa
travels to Bavaria to discover what happened. As the young countess destined to
marry the heir needs an English tutor, Pippa takes the job, hoping to learn
more.
The
mystery slowly unravels to reveal much and Holt gives the reader some unexpected
twists. Even Pippa is shocked when she discovers just who Conrad is.
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