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. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. 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.

And only to deceive by tasha alexander