There is no one else who does romance the way Victoria Holt does it. You just never want the book to end.
Romantic-suspense. Illustrates clearly the difference between a jury verdict of 'not proven' vs. 'not guilty.'
Romantic mystery light reading. I enjoyed it.
Copyright 1990.
Davina Glentyre is on trial for the murder of her father. All that was once familiar and dear is now shadowed by scandal and mistrust. Her happy young life in Edinburgh had vanished in the wake of her mother's recent death. Her father seemed strangely changed. And when Davina's beloved governess was abruptly dismissed, an unlikely replacement was found--the lusty, auburn-haired Zillah Grey, who stayed to become the new Mrs. Glentyre. That was the year Davina's father died, the year in which she stands accused.
I thought the book was great! But, then again, I haven't read a Victoria Holt story that I didn't enjoy.
I'm only willing to swap this one because I have another copy.
Davina Glentyre is on trial for the murder of her father. All that was once familiar and dear is now shadowed by scandal and mistrust. Her happy young life in Edinburgh had vanished in the wake of her mother's recent death. Her father seemed strangely changed. And when Davina's beloved governess was abruptly dismissed, an unlikely replacement was found--the lusty, auburn-haired Zillah Grey, who stayed to become the new Mrs. Glentyre. That was the year Davina's father died, the year in which she stands accused.
I thought the book was great! But, then again, I haven't read a Victoria Holt story that I didn't enjoy.
I'm only willing to swap this one because I have another copy.
Davina Blentyre's happy young life in Edinburgh was shattered by her mother's death and made even more unbearable by her father's sudden marriage to her new governess.
Davina's one joy was her friendship with a poor but charming young student, Jamie, whom her father forbade her to wed. And when her father suddenly died from arsenic poisoning, the means, motive, and opportunity all pointed damningly to Davina herself.
She protested her innocence in court but received only the ambiguous verdict of "Not Proven." It condemned seventeen-year-old Davina to a life of vicious rumor and innuendo. Alone, she escaped to the colonies in Africa and into a strange new world. But with the Boer War came danger and the return of dark secrets from the past that threatened her reputation and her very life....
Davina's one joy was her friendship with a poor but charming young student, Jamie, whom her father forbade her to wed. And when her father suddenly died from arsenic poisoning, the means, motive, and opportunity all pointed damningly to Davina herself.
She protested her innocence in court but received only the ambiguous verdict of "Not Proven." It condemned seventeen-year-old Davina to a life of vicious rumor and innuendo. Alone, she escaped to the colonies in Africa and into a strange new world. But with the Boer War came danger and the return of dark secrets from the past that threatened her reputation and her very life....
