**For seven victims, death comes in the dark . . .** Once a luxurious southern getaway on a rustic lake, then reduced to a dilapidated crash pad, the Summer House is now the grisly scene of a nighttime mass murder. Eyewitnesses point to four Army Rangers -- known as the Night Ninjas -- recentl
The Summer House
β Scribed by Santa Montefiore
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 425 KB
- Edition
- 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Previously published as The Woman from Paris
"Superb storyteller" (Plum Sykes) Santa Montefiore's sweeping and sophisticated international bestseller Summer House is "a feel good story, full of exuberance and passion and threaded with hopeβ¦an exceptional find" (Seattle Post-Intelligencer).
When Lord Frampton dies in a skiing accident, a beautiful young woman named Phaedra appears at his funeral--claiming to be the Lord's illegitimate daughter. In his will, Lord Frampton has left the priceless Frampton suite of sapphires to this interloper, confirming her claim and outraging his three adult sons and widow. Eventually, however, Phaedra's sweet nature thaws the frosty relationships. She becomes the daughter that Antoinette Frampton never had and a wise and compassionate granddaughter to the formidable Dowager Lady Frampton. But an attraction grows between Phaedra and the eldest son, David. It seems an...
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