LUKE DEVENISH

Corre el año 44 aC y los clanes rivales de Roma están llevando a la República hacia un nal violento y bañado de sangre. Los Claudios, celosos, codician el poder de los Julios, que son los reyes

Corre el año 44 a.C. y los clanes rivales de Roma están llevando a la República hacia un nal violento y bañado de sangre. Los Claudios, celosos, codician el poder de los Julios, que son los rey

Four women join forces, with conviction, courage ... and styleFrance, April 1940. Orphan Polly Hartford has been sent across oceans to her Aunt Marjorie, known only from letters. When Marjorie dies in suspicious circumstances, Polly is left with her aunts loaded pistol in a beautiful Hermes handbag . . . and to the care of Marjories three closest friends: an elegant Comtesse, a gutter-born film star and a big-hearted American heiress. Polly is taken to live at the Hotel Ritz, where guests and staff believe wealth and prestige protect them from war. But when the Nazis invade, the illusion is shattered. As Paris deteriorates, Polly and her guardians face the horrors of the Occupation with daring, humour, style even romance and despite their dangerous secrets, they discover just what they are capable of. As the Liberation approaches, those who survive at the Ritz must face a day of reckoning, but one truth stands tall: at the heart of the Ritz is the soul of resistance.Marvellously colourful characters in a tale with so many twists and turns make The Heart of the Ritz a page-turner J.R. Lonie, bestselling author of The Woman From Saint Germain Luke Devenish is a master of the dramatic cliffhanger Daily Telegraph

Luke Devenish is a master at the dramatic cliffhanger -- Daily TelegraphA fabulous "upstairs, downstairs" drama -- Australian Womens WeeklyA fabled house. A fabulous fortune. Beautiful, identical twins Dark shadows fall across the golden summer of 1886. Naive country girl Ida Garfield longs to escape the farm. When Miss Matilda Gregory, the elegant mistress of Summersby House, offers Ida employment as a housemaid, Ida leaps at the chance. Yet its not for her servants skills that shes wanted. Its her inquisitiveness... But before Ida starts her first day, Miss Gregory is found dead. Fearing her one chance of bettering herself lost, Ida goes to the funeral, hoping that someone else from Summersby will still want her. Someone does. Handsome blond Englishman Mr Samuel Hackett is the late Miss Gregorys fiance. He expresses a keen need for a housemaid and a friend. But Miss Gregorys will brings to light an extraordinary deception and a terrible wrong from the past. Summersby has a secret heiress, whose name is also Matilda Gregory... A strange, ethereal girl with an irrevocably broken memory. Who is this mysterious heiress, and why is Ida bound forever to the truth? A tale of dark shadows and extraordinary deception.