I enjoyed some parts, but the flow was not working for me. I liked the premise of a gothic mystery set in the New York gilded age, but it didn't live up to my expectations. I found the characters confusing and the plot was hard to follow. Who were her brother and his wife, really? And why did her brother die with the name George on his lips? Bay’s sister, Janie, forms an unlikely alliance with a reporter to uncover the truth, convinced that Bay would never have killed his wife, that it must be a third party, but the more she learns about her brother and his wife, the more everything she thought she knew about them starts to unravel. But then Bayard is found dead with a knife in his chest on the night of their Twelfth Night Ball, Annabelle goes missing, presumed drowned, and the papers go mad. Yes, there are rumors that she’s having an affair with the architect, but rumors are rumors and people will gossip. From the New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Willig, comes this scandalous New York Gilded Age novel full of family secrets, affairs, and even murder.Īnnabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life: he’s the scion of an old Knickerbocker family, she grew up in a Tudor manor in England, they had a whirlwind romance in London, they have three year old twins on whom they dote, and he’s recreated her family home on the banks of the Hudson and renamed it Illyria.
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