Like A Diamond In The Sky by Audrey Peyton |
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Like A Diamond In The Sky a romantic suspense novel that takes 29 year old Valerie Carr, a widow from California, to England for the Christmas holidays. By a strange twist of fate, when the friend she is traveling with dies of a heart attack during the journey, she spends the holidays on a large estate called Chanteclaire. She perceives the local doctor, Peter French, as mildly attractive, but finds herself becoming hopelessly in love with the squire of Chanteclaire Christian Tregarran. Although the reader slowly learns he is a cad, Valerie is too infatuated to see his flaws. She will do anything for him.
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Synopsis:
Twenty-nine year-old Valerie Carr, a widow from California, travels to England for Christmas. By a strange twist of fate, when the friend she is traveling with dies of a heart attack during the journey, she spends the holidays on a large estate called Chanteclaire. She perceives the local doctor, Peter French, as mildly attractive, but finds herself becoming hopelessly in love with the squire of Chanteclaire Christian Tregarran.
Although the reader slowly learns he is a cad, Valerie is too infatuated to see his flaws. She will do anything for him. They become lovers after she agrees to pose as Tregarran’s missing American wife, whom she resembles – blue eyes, blonde hair, same soft Southern accent. This pretense is for Tregarran’s blind father, his having threatened to disinherit his son if the marriage falls apart and a scandal smears the family name.
With the Chanteclaire servants either sick with flu or off for the holidays, the scheme seems to work when temporary domestics are hired and no one suspects Valerie is an imposter. Valerie makes a disturbing discovery about the missing wife, Rosalind, who is “man mad” according to Tregarran. He says her absence is due to her torrid affair with an estate worker. Violence, lies, intrigue and heartache follow when Valerie incriminates herself deeply in an attempt to save her lover from being arrested for murder. |
