That it doesn't actually reflect the world around us. While I am a fan of this wish fulfillment in writing sometimes I feel that it's unsatisfying.

Her writing started to move beyond the dual timeline narrative where despite troubles everyone gets a happily ever after. When she wrote her first standalone, The Ashford Affair, back in 2013 she tapped into something new. She's even one of the reasons I decided to start my blog! While I have loved reading every single one of her books, finding characters to love and to hate, ones to root for and ones that I long to see fall flat on their faces, the greatest joy was seeing her mature as a writer.

Having first read Lauren back in 2007 a short time after her third Pink Carnation book, The Deception of the Emerald Ring, had hit bookshelves I don't want to claim I'm an expert on her writing, but I have been along for the ride for a decade now. Burke helping her she will get to the bottom of her brother's death and perhaps solve the mysteries of his life. But with the tenacious and increasingly devoted Mr. Before too long Janie realizes that perhaps she didn't know Annabelle or even Bay.

Burke, leads Janie to form a tenuous alliance with a man who represents the scandal rags that are pulling her world apart. A chance encounter with a reporter from The News of the World, a Mr. But it pains her to see Annabelle's name dragged through the mud, they didn't know her like she did. She is expected to keep calm and wait for the scandal to die down. She has murdered her husband and absconded with her lover! The only one who doesn't believe the salacious lies all the newspapers are printing is Bay's younger sister, Janie. Everyone believes that the rumors about Annabelle and the house's architect at true. Soon New York society will get exactly what it craves when during a lavish ball to celebrate Twelfth Night Bayard is found with a knife in his chest and the name Georgie on his lips while his wife has disappeared. Why would Bayard and his wife Annabelle hide themselves away in Cold Springs? A beautiful house is no excuse to being a recluse when New York society thirsts for your lifeblood. But there are rumors that everything isn't as perfect as it seems. The sole male heir of an old Knickerbocker family he has a beautiful English wife, for whom he's recreated her ancestral home on the banks of the Hudson, and two beautiful children, three-year-old fraternal twins Viola and Sebastian.

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