In this hardcover edition of The Landower Legacy, Victoria Holt magnificently displays her gift for breathing life into history. The world's best-loved writer of romantic suspense evokes late Victorian England -- its manners, dress, and gossip; its funerals and masked balls; its fortune hunters; its rigid morality and furtive sinning.

SYNOPSIS || In 1887, in the excitement of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, fourteen-year-old Caroline Tressidor blurts out a secret. Though it is a secret she does not understand, her punishment is swift: Her beautiful mother disappears; her father banishes Caroline to a family estate in Cornwall.

There, puzzled and lonely, she begins a search for understanding that takes her back to London and to heartbreak; sends her to the South of France and a romantic reunion with the man she has learned to love and fear; returns her to Cornwall, to tragedy and a desperate murderer; and ends ten years after its beginnings as she watches the plain little Queen celebrate her Diamond Jubilee.

Against the rich background of historical detail that is her hallmark, Victoria Holt creates a colorful story, a spirited, outspoken heroine, and characters of depth and reality; among them the Landower brothers, whose desperation to save their vast holdings spawns a legacy of hatred and death.

With an unbroken succession of more than twenty-five international bestsellers and sales of more than 50 million copies to her credit (at that time), Victoria Holt has reigned for more than two decades as queen of romantic suspense novelists. She "dominates the field," says Time magazine, and she is the standard by which others in it are judged.

Genre: Historical Romantic Suspense
Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket, 388 pages
Condition: Very Good (images are of actual book with dust jacket)
Published: Doubleday Books, 1994 Book Club Edition

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