Helpful Score: 2
This is my all time favorite Holt book, can't tell you how many times I've read it. It's timeless in it's beauty. A mystery, a romance, suspensful, murder, intrigue, it's got everything.
Helpful Score: 1
a romance between a girl and a rich man. she loses her virginity to him in a house that her grandfather haes wanted to own for yearsbut was owned by germans. she has to salve a mistory of her sisters death, and has to find her sister's son. this was the 3rd victoria holt book i read i strongly sugest it.
Holts early romance novels, good for romance.
a romance between a girl and a rich man. she loses her virginity to him in a house that her grandfather haes wanted to own for yearsbut was owned by germans. she has to salve a mistory of her sisters death, and has to find her sister's son. this was the 3rd victoria holt book i read i strongly sugest it.
No one does Gothic romance better than Victoria Holt aka Jean Plaidy, aka Phillipa Carr
Victoria Holt is a master of mystery, intrigue & romance. Pippa trys to find the truth behind her sister's mysterious death...will she have the same fate?
Romantic Suspense.
Took a little bit to get into it, but once I did I could not put it down!
Her twentieth novel, an exciting tale of intrigue in the Bavarian Alps, takes the reader to the Grand Duchy of Bruxenstein, where lovely Francine Ewell had eloped with her suitor, Baron Rudolph, heir to the throne. Left behind was her younger sister, Pippa, who must face alone the wrath of their dour grandfather, autocratic master of Greystone, the brooding manor house in Kent.
Pippa's only solace in her loneliness comes from Francine's letters, which speak of her husband's devotion, of their young son, of their intention to bring Pippa to live with them in a land straight out of a fairy tale. But the letters stop abruptly, and Pippa seems doomed to a loveless match arranged by the overbearing patriarch who heads her family. And then she stumbles upon a newspaper clipping that tells of a murder in a faraway country; the victims are Rudolph of Bruxenstein and his mysterious 'companion,' a beautiful Englishwoman.
Yet Pippa is sure that the 'companion' was her sister and that Francine and Rudolph had indeed married. She is also sure that there was a child. But no one shares her certainty, and soon she realizes that no one really cares to know. But she has to know the truth.
So Pippa sets off across Europe, bound for a passionate adventure, a romance of her own, fraught with danger, duplicity, and irresistible emotion. She sought her sister's fate...but she was to find her own.
Pippa's only solace in her loneliness comes from Francine's letters, which speak of her husband's devotion, of their young son, of their intention to bring Pippa to live with them in a land straight out of a fairy tale. But the letters stop abruptly, and Pippa seems doomed to a loveless match arranged by the overbearing patriarch who heads her family. And then she stumbles upon a newspaper clipping that tells of a murder in a faraway country; the victims are Rudolph of Bruxenstein and his mysterious 'companion,' a beautiful Englishwoman.
Yet Pippa is sure that the 'companion' was her sister and that Francine and Rudolph had indeed married. She is also sure that there was a child. But no one shares her certainty, and soon she realizes that no one really cares to know. But she has to know the truth.
So Pippa sets off across Europe, bound for a passionate adventure, a romance of her own, fraught with danger, duplicity, and irresistible emotion. She sought her sister's fate...but she was to find her own.
