And Only to Deceive
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781472111326 (147211132X)
Publish date: 2014-03-20
Publisher: Constable Crime
Edition language: English
Series: Lady Emily (#1)
When Emily accepts Philip's proposal she does so without any real love on her part, he was the least offensive of the possible candidates and it's more to escape her mother than for love. A few months later he's dead on Safari and she's a widow who now has more freedom than she ever had before. Whil...
Took me forever to finish this, but I want to read the next one so
Emily agreed to wed Philip, the Viscount Ashton, primarily to escape her overbearing mother. Philip's death while on safari soon after their wedding left Emily feeling little grief, for she barely knew the dashing stranger. But her discovery of his journals nearly two years later reveals a far diff...
After all the heavy books I’ve been reading lately, I felt the need to dip back into genre fiction for a while. I’m glad that I chose Tasha Alexander’s delightfully genre-breaking book, And Only to Deceive, the first book in the Lady Emily series of historical mysteries. From the very first page And...
With Lady Emily we get a heroine who isn’t just somebody with present-day opinions that got transported back in the Victorian era. In fact her views were pretty much time-apropriate for most of her life. They are only beginning to change at the start of the book after she enjoyed some freedom after ...