![]() ![]() An initial meeting, briefly brushed aside by Emily, was perceived by her husband to be a delight, a joy. Her indifference came to light in stark contrast to his reactions to her. Slowly, Emily begins to discover that, unlike her, her husband was deeply in love with his wife. She was sad about her husband's death, but right now, Emily is just enjoying her newfound freedom as a young widow.Īll is well and dandy, until she discovers her late husband's diaries. She entered the marriage mainly to escape her overbearing mother. While not exactly a merry widow, Emily doesn't exactly mourn her late husband's death either. He died young, when we initially meet Emily, she is already a widow. She liked him, sure, but she didn't love him. She was married very young to a viscount, whom she didn't exactly love. To give you an idea of the premise, this is about a very young widow, Lady Emily, in the late Victorian Era. This series features a great main character, interesting mysteries, all that good shit, but for me, this book is memorable because it's one of the few that's ever made me cry. To come face to face with your own self-absorbance, your own youthful folly, your inability to see beyond yourself to a great love that could have been? A great love that never was. How horrible must it be to realize that you can't tell someone you love them. It can bring you no joy."There are few emotions more painful than regret, more specifically, the regret of finally realizing that you love someone, only after they've left-or after they've died. "Don't fall in love with your dead husband, Kallista. Andrew makes sure I get my English characters right, and I make sure his American ones sound American. I still don't have a covered wagon, but a log house goes a long way toward fulfilling my pioneer fantasies. My husband, the brilliant British novelist Andrew Grant (I may be biased but that doesn't mean I'm wrong) and I live in southeastern Wyoming. I played nomad for a long time, living in Indiana, Amsterdam, London, Wyoming, Vermont, Connecticut, and Tennessee before settling down. One of the best parts of being an author is seeing your books translated, and I'm currently in love with the Japanese editions of the Emily books. I'm the author of the long-running Lady Emily Series as well as the novel Elizabeth: The Golden Age. Writing is a natural offshoot of reading, and my first novel, And Only to Deceive, was published in 2005. I studied English Literature and Medieval History at the University of Notre Dame. Even there, I was never without a book in hand and loved reading and history more than anything. I was convinced from an early age that I was born in the wrong century and spent much of my childhood under the dining room table pretending it was a covered wagon. The daughter of two philosophy professors, I grew up surrounded by books. As she sets out to solve the crime, her search leads to more surprises about Philip and causes her to question the role in Victorian society to which she, as a woman, is relegated. ![]() And to complicate matters, she's juggling two very prominent and wealthy suitors, one of whose intentions may go beyond the marrying kind. ![]() There, amid priceless ancient statues, she uncovers a dark, dangerous secret involving stolen artifacts from the Greco-Roman galleries. Emily becomes fascinated with this new image of her dead husband and she immerses herself in all things ancient and begins to study Greek.Įmily's intellectual pursuits and her desire to learn more about Philip take her to the quiet corridors of the British Museum, one of her husband's favorite places. His journals reveal him to have been a gentleman scholar and antiquities collector who, to her surprise, was deeply in love with his wife. ![]() Now, nearly two years later, she discovers that Philip was a far different man from the one she had married so cavalierly. So when Emily's dashing husband died on safari soon after their wedding, she felt little grief. From gifted new writer Tasha Alexander comes a stunning novel of historical suspense set in Victorian England, meticulously researched and with a twisty plot that involves stolen antiquities, betrayal, and murderįor Emily, accepting the proposal of Philip, the Viscount Ashton, was an easy way to escape her overbearing mother, who was set on a grand society match. ![]()
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