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The acclaimed author of The Devil You Know pens a shimmering novel about a Scottish noblewoman on the run from her past and a powerful English lord brought to his knees by desire.
Aubrey Montford claims to be a widowed housekeeper. Desperate to keep her new post -- and her secrets -- she transforms desolate Castle Cardow into a profitable estate. Yet soon after her employer, Lord Walrafen, returns from long years of absence, Aubrey is suspected of murder. Sparks and tempers ignite whenever she and the smoldering earl meet, but he may be her only hope.
Walrafen returns reluctantly to the childhood home he loathes. Cardow is said to be haunted -- by more than the earl's sad memories -- but it was no ghost that murdered his uncle. Is the castle's beautiful chatelaine a murderess? At the very least, she's a liar -- he has proof. Yet the truth of his soul is that he's drawn to her with a kind of fierce passion he's never known....
- Sales Rank: #696786 in Books
- Brand: Pocket Star
- Published on: 2004-03-01
- Released on: 2004-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.75" h x 1.10" w x 4.19" l, .40 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 384 pages
- Great product!
From Publishers Weekly
Carlyle's Devil series (The Devil You Know, etc.) continues in this historical romance featuring an embittered earl and a housekeeper with something to hide. Aubrey Montford comes to Castle Cardow armed only with forged references and towing a small boy behind her. The only tenant of the castle is the irascible Major Lorimer, an ailing alcoholic whom no one in the household can bear for long. Nevertheless, Aubrey soon endears herself to the Major by restoring the castle to its former glory. The estate's absentee owner, the Earl of Walrafen, is content to leave Cardow in Aubrey's capable hands until the Major, his uncle, is found shot to death in his room. Giles, Lord Walrafen, returns to Cardow, though it holds only unhappy memories for him. As he seeks his uncle's murderer, he finds himself drawn to the beautiful but strangely reserved Aubrey-but she's also the prime suspect in his investigation. Carlyle sets up a locked-room mystery with few suspects, so there's far more romance here than suspense. Fortunately, the chemistry between Aubrey and Giles is intense, and their relationship possesses a maturity that distinguishes it from typical love-between-the-classes romances. On the whole, Regency fans who prefer their romances mixed with a little intrigue will be charmed by Carlyle's newest offering.
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From Booklist
Desperately needing a safe place for her and her young child, Aubrey Farquharson convinces Elias Lorimer not only to hire her as Castle Cardow's new housekeeper but also to keep her identity secret. Aubrey's efforts to restore order to the rundown castle include sending letter after letter to its owner, Giles, the Earl of Walrafen, nagging him about his responsibilities to the estate. Although he greatly enjoys her impertinent correspondence, Giles has no intention of visiting his cursed family home, but Giles' plans change when his uncle Elias is found shot in his study. Forced to return to Cardow, Giles is determined to avenge his uncle's murder but instead finds himself spending most of his time trying to seduce the prime suspect in the case, his bewitching housekeeper, "Mrs. Montford." A sharp-witted, sharp-tongued heroine closely guards the secrets of her past from a wonderfully tortured hero, who has a few secrets of his own, in this sinfully sensual, superbly written historical. With its exquisitely nuanced characters, darkly intense plot, subtle humor, and gleaming prose, Carlyle's latest romance is nothing short of brilliant. John Charles
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About the Author
During her frequent travels through England, Liz Carlyle always packs her pearls, her dancing slippers, and her whalebone corset, confident in the belief that eventually she will receive an invitation to a ball or a rout. Alas, none has been forthcoming. While waiting, however, she has managed to learn where all the damp, dark alleys and low public houses can be found.
Liz hopes she has brought just a little of the nineteenth century alive for the reader in her popular novels, which include the trilogy of One Little Sin, Two Little Lies, and Three Little Secrets, as well as The Devil You Know, A Deal With the Devil, and The Devil to Pay. Please visit her at LizCarlyle.com, especially if you're giving a ball.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Read It; You'll Like It - If you are a Regency Romance/Mystery Fan
By Emptrix
The story line is already described elsewhere in reviews.
Aubrey and Giles are a great romantic pair. I really enjoyed the way a sexual tension and attraction was formed through Aubrey's correspondence to Giles. While I found the premis of this story more difficult to accept as far as Aubrey's abducion of her nephew and them not being discovered, it is still a good premis and since the means of tracking people in Regency England is not the same as it would be in this age, I must give the author the benefit of that. So, I changed my initial 4 stars to 5 stars because of the excellence of her writing and attention to historical detail. Ms. Carlyle excells at the combination of romance and mystery. I love her formula and her execution in all these inter related stories. Ms. Carlyle has a wonderful way of bringing humor, into a story to help take the edge off of the drama. Ms. Carlyle's books introduce her main characters in other stories, but then she does a thorough job of reintroducing us to them and giving us their back story.
I confess a bias toward this author's books. I love her characters; the reintrodction of these "old friends" as I think of them, in successive books. Ms. Carlyle is an excellent writer, and thank the gods she has incredible editors. I never get sidetracked by offensive grammatical and typographic errors.
I find all of the love scenes well done and HOT; and the interactions between the characters very realistic. She is an author that does the rare thing for me, her characters take on life and make the story multidimensional not just a flat read.
Unless she changes radically, I will be a fan for life.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Love this Author and Her Awesome books!
By M. Rondeau
Setting - Cadrow Castle, England, 1829 --- Carlyle's latest book in her `Devil' series features a young woman who has come to the musty rundown Castle Cadrow in answer to an advertisement for a housekeeper. Calling herself Mrs. Aubrey Montford, she brings along forged documents along with her young son, Iain. Major Lorimer, the cantankerous and ailing uncle of the Earl of Walrafen is ready to toss her and her son out until she reveals to him her real identity and he reluctantly allows her to stay where over time she endears herself to the Major. Several years pass and the very isolation of the castle gives her a feeling of safety as she busies herself in returning the castle and grounds back to a semblance of it's former glory.
Giles, the Earl of Walrafen, whose unhappy childhood memories of Castle Cardow have kept him away from his childhood home for years has been apprised of the castles status by weekly missives, as well as scoldings he's been receiving from the seemingly irritable Mrs. Montford. He's dealt with these letters by regulating them to an almost non-existent priority in lieu of more important matters dealing with his Parlimentary work. Notified of his uncle's murder, he drops everything and travels to the castle where he is astonished when he finally meets the housekeeper. The woman he'd once thought of as a close proximity to Atila the the Hun turned out to be quite lovely, AND she was also the prime suspect in his uncle's murder. Their relationship starts out on the wrong foot from the very first moments, with Aubrey barely disguising her disdain for neglecting both his home and uncle, and of course he's not too pleased with a housekeeper that is treating him with such impertinence. In spite of Aubrey's secrets, their mutual attraction simply sizzles and they embark on a surreptitious affair. When Giles wants to make the relationship a more permanent arrangement, he's distraught when Aubrey refuses to even consider it. Calling in some favors from friends, Giles asks them to conduct an investigation that just might destroy what gains he'd made in getting Aubrey to trust him.
This was such an awesome and thrilling romance from an author whose writing style, I confess, I simply adore. I totally enjoyed her two protagonists and their interaction, especially as Giles, whether he admitted it or not, had so enjoyed the letters he'd been receiving over the years from a woman who he thought of as a `thorn in his side'. While this is part of a `series' it certainly does stand-alone and I particularly love the way, Carlyle manages to bring back friends from all of her previous novels to pop in, here and there, to visit - one big happy family! Kemble, who has appeared in a couple of books that I can recall, is a remarkable secondary character that I find always adds a humorous touch to the usual drama in her stories. Bottom Line - This is just another of the superb stories I've come to expect when buying this authors works and I am so glad I discovered her right from the get go! All her books have found a permanent place on my `keeper shelf'! ---- Marilyn Rondeau, Official Reviewer for [...] ---
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
4 1/2 Stars - Another enjoyable Carlyle read
By baltimore0502
Giles Lorimer, Earl of Walrafen, lives for politics and London life. He's avoided his childhood home, Cardow Castle, for years because of the sad memories it holds. His disabled, war hero Uncle Elias lives at Cardow and three years ago hired a housekeeper, Mrs. Montford, who plagues Giles with updates, questions, requests and harangues on the running of the estate. Letters Giles never answers, but that he strangely both dreads and looks forward to. On the one hand, he wants nothing to do with Cardow - it could crumb to the ground for all he cares - so the letters induce a measure of guilt in him for his benign neglect of the estate and his tenants about which she regularly berates him. On the other hand, her letters are also a source of amusement and Giles takes a strange kind of pleasure in her missives. She's obviously competent, efficient, intelligent and witty and he finds himself wondering about her. Well, he will finally meet her when word comes that Uncle Elias has been murdered and Giles must return to Cardow.
Aubrey Montford is, of course, not what she seems. But she has gratefully embraced her role as housekeeper in the remote castle. She and little five-year-old Iain have lived happily at Cardow, but Aubrey knows that with Elias' death everything has changed. Her place at Cardow is not so certain now and she frets for her and Iain's futures. Unfortunately, the arrival of the neglectful earl only prompts her temper and sharp tongue, which she can't seem to keep in check. Due to his neglect an unstable tower she had written to Giles about repeatedly collapsed resulting in several injuries - including to Iain. Between this and all the other letters he never bothered to answer or issues he never addressed, she has little respect for the lord of the manor. But that doesn't mean that she hasn't noticed how handsome his is with his dark hair and silver-gray eyes.
While Giles reprimands her for her impertinence he cannot fault her for feelings that are, on the whole, justified. He sees all the improvements and positive changes that Aubrey has made at Cardow and he is impressed to say the least. He is also incredibly, surprisingly attracted to the confident, poised, green-eyed, auburn haired beauty hiding behind the plain housekeeper garb. Yes, there is definitely more here than meets the eye! But when the circumstances surrounding Elias' death seem to point to Aubrey, Giles doesn't believe it and calls in his old friends Max DeRohan and George Kemble to investigate - both the crime and Aubrey. Meanwhile an attraction between Giles and Aubrey begins to grow. Aubrey begins to see another side to Giles that contradicts her original opinion of him. He's kind, gentle, sweet and, though she can't afford to become involved with him, Giles finally breaks through Aubrey's defenses. But given his suspicions and questions about the person Aubrey really is and the fact that she is suspected of murder, can there be a future for these two?
I really enjoyed this story, but have to agree it's not quite as good as some of Ms Carlyle's other works. The mysteries of Elias' death as well as the truth about Aubrey and Iain's backgrounds are well done and keep one turning the pages. Giles is a bit different from most of the author's other heroes. He's more sensitive, less intense and rogue-ish but he is definitely used to getting what he wants. I also felt, as other reviewers did, that his initial pushing Aubrey to sleep with him when she was obviously reluctant was a tiny bit troubling. But Giles and Aubrey ultimately made a sweet couple, his relationship with little Iain was cute and it was fun to catch up with old friends like David and Cecilia (from A WOMAN OF VIRTUE) as well as Max (AWOV & NO TRUE GENTLEMAN) and Kem (he's seen in almost all of her books!). Highly recommended!
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