★ 05/15/2017
In this sequel to The Girl in the Castle, the focus shifts from Kitty Deverill to her cousin Celia, as the ownership of Deverill Castle falls into Celia's luckier and wealthier collateral family branch. Just as Celia finishes her extravagant refurbishing of the estate, the Crash of 1929 takes her family's fortune and the lives of her husband and her father. All Celia is left with is the death of her own dreams and a blackmailer who tells her that her beloved father was not the man she thought he was. Determined to salvage his reputation, Celia undertakes a dangerous journey of discovery to the source of her father's fortune, only to find that while he may have made the devil's own luck, she has just enough pluck of her own to start over far from where she began. For lovers of meaty family sagas, the Deverills are rich and dysfunctional in just the ways that make their adventures and tribulations so much fun to read. VERDICT This series is highly recommended for Downton Abbey addicts looking for a new story to sink into, and for readers who love exploring the depths of women's relationships over the course of their lives.—Marlene Harris, Reading Reality, LLC, Duluth, GA
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