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Dance for A Dead Princess - Deborah Hawkins
Dance for A Dead Princess
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In January 1997, Princess Diana received a phone call telling her she would be assassinated. She recorded the information on a secret video tape, naming her killer and gave it to a trusted friend in America for safekeeping. It has never been found.Diana's close friend, Nicholas Carey, the 18th... show more
In January 1997, Princess Diana received a phone call telling her she would be assassinated. She recorded the information on a secret video tape, naming her killer and gave it to a trusted friend in America for safekeeping. It has never been found.Diana's close friend, Nicholas Carey, the 18th Duke of Burnham and second richest man in England, has vowed to find the tape and expose her killer. After years of searching, he discovers Diana gave the tape to British socialite Mari Cuniff, who died in New York under mysterious circumstances. He believes Wall Street attorney Taylor Collins, the executor of Mari's estate, has possession of it. He lures Taylor to England by promising to sell his ancestral home in Kent, Burnham Abbey, to one of her clients, a boarding school for American girls. Nicholas has dated actresses and models since the death of his wife, ten years earlier, and has no interest in falling in love again. But he is immediately and unexpectedly overwhelmed with feelings for Taylor at their first meeting.Taylor, unaware that Diana's tape is in her long-time friend and client's estate and nursing her hurt over her broken engagement to a fellow attorney in her firm, brands Nicholas supremely spoiled and selfish. She is in a hurry to finish the sale of the Abbey and return to New York. But while working in the Abbey's library, Taylor uncovers the diary of Thomas Carey, a knight at the court of Henry VIII and the first Duke of Burnham. As she reads Thomas' agonizing struggle to save the love of his life and the mother of his child from being forced to become Henry's mistress, she begins to see Nicholas in a new light as he battles to save his sixteen-year-old ward Lucy, who is desperately unhappy and addicted to cocaine. But just as Taylor's feelings for Nicholas become clear and at the moment she realizes she is in possession of Diana's voice from the grave, she learns that Nicholas may be Lucy's father and responsible for his wife's death at the Abbey at the time of Lucy's birth. When Nicholas is arrested for Lucy's murder and taken to Wandsworth Prison, Taylor sets out to learn the truth about Nicholas, his late wife, and the death of the Princess of Wales.Dance for A Dead Princess is a the story of two great loves that created and preserved a family that has lasted for five hundred years.
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9780988934719
Publisher: Deborah Hawkins
Pages no: 300
Edition language: English
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Working for Books
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4.0 Dance for a Dead Princess - Deborah Hawkins
What motivates a given character’s actions? Taylor is motivated by the discovery of truth. She is inquisitive and wants to uncover the truth at all costs. Sometimes, it seemed she was naive and that she was overlooking the consequences of her actions but overall as the plot progresses, her actions a...
Journey's Thru Books
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5.0 Deborah Hawkins - Dance for a Dead Princess
What do you think was the author’s purpose in writing this book? She wanted to present a fictional account of murder, mystery with some facts thrown in. The inclusion of royalty would of course have fans of the royals reading and enjoying the book. Personally, I liked the overall plot and the depict...
Farm Girl Books
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5.0 Dance for a Dead Princess by Deborah Hawkins - Review
Dance for A Dead Princess by Deborah Hawkins My rating: 5 of 5 stars What did you think about the setting of the book? Burnham was the perfect place for a story like this. Its dark past and current suspicious circumstances provide readers with twists and turns that keep you guessing about the outcom...
Living for Books
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5.0 Review: Dance for a Dead Princess by Deborah Hawkins
What kind of book is this? Fiction with a twist of reality. The secrets at the abbey have been buried for many years without anyone taking the initiative to read the journals. Fiction meets truth when the idea of a hidden tape by recorded by Diana is brought into the story. Objectively speaking, it ...
bit's 'n Bobs
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4.0 Dance for A Dead Princess by Deborah Hawkins
What is the time period in which the book happens? I understand that the timeline of the story starts from somewhere in late April 2010. This is more than a decade after the death of the Princess of Wales. While none of us question the drama element of including a prominent real-life figure in a fic...
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