Then there is Cad, the handsome second son whose reputation is impeccable in business, but scandalous in everything else.ĭrawn by friendship, ensnared by lust, Dita uncovers a sordid tangle of murder, desire and madness. There is Tynan, the kindly Earl, Lucia, his capable wife, handsome, volatile Eddie and sweet, sheltered sister Eleanor. Dita struggles to decipher the Jago family. The fresh-hewn stone, however, cannot absorb the blood of centuries or quiet the echoes of past crimes. On the grim Cornish coast, from the ashes of a ruined castle rises the Jagos’ sumptuous new manor house.
As deceptions go, it is innocent compared with what is to come. The charade is a favor to Dita’s best friend, Eddie Jago, a dissolute painter, and the aforementioned heir. But now she’s not so much striking a pose as playing a role, as fiancée to the next Earl of Athal. In the artistic circles of 1860s Paris she is known as the Divine Dita, Montmartre’s most sought-after nude model.
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