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Oliver, Marina
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Fiction
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2011
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Robert Hale
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English
β 124 KB
β¦ LIBER β¦
Death at the Dower House
β Scribed by Jenna Bennett
- Book ID
- 112251507
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 146 KB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
β¦ Synopsis
England, early May, 1926
After the funerals of the late Duke of Sutherland and his daughter-in-law, Charlotte, (and of course Grimsby, the blackmailing valet), the younger members of the family--Philippa Darling, her cousins Christopher and Francis, and Crispin, Viscount St George--are invited to a weekend party at the Dower House in Dorset by Dowager Lady Peckham's children, Constance and Gilbert.
Once in Dorset, things go sideways very quickly. Lady Peckham's ward, the lovely Dutch emigree Johanna de Vos, has been making a dead set at Crispin, and has had him all to herself for the past few days. Constance's time has been monopolized by Francis, while Pippa wouldn't throw Crispin a rope if he were going down for the third time. However, the house party also includes the beautiful Lady Laetitia Marsden, a former dalliance of Crispin's, and she doesn't take the competition for his affections--or his title and fortune--lying down.
As a...
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