Into Temptation
Power, politics and explosive secrets in the stunning finale of the bestselling Spoils of Time trilogy
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Publisher Description
Power, politics and closely guarded secrets abound in the epic INTO TEMPTATION, the third and final novel of Sunday Times bestselling author Penny Vincenzi's Spoils of Time trilogy
'Like an illicit lover, I have been sloping off all week to snatch another hour's pleasure with ... Penny Vincenzi's terrific new novel' Jilly Cooper
The Lytton family past is full of secrets, and only Lady Celia knows them all. Her daughter, Adele, has a dark, difficult past; her son Kit has confronted a cruel and terrible truth; even the shadows of Celia's own life, and that of Barty Miller, the child she rescued from the slums in babyhood who now owns more than half of the Lytton publishing house.
Some secrets are more dangerous than others, some shared with Celia's family, some entirely her own. And all absolutely safe in her keeping. Until something threatens to reveal them all...
Celia Lytton uncovers it all in the final, unmissable volume of the international bestselling Spoils of Time trilogy, featuring No Angel and Something Dangerous
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The third in the Lytton family trilogy (Something Dangerous; No Angel) takes the patrician English clan and all its jockeying for power, money and approval into the second half of the 20th century. Set in London and New York, the novel opens in 1953 with the Lyttons in an uproar, as matriarch Celia drops two bombshells: she's leaving Lytton's, the family publishing house she has run for decades, and marrying sportsman Lord "Bunny" Arden. (Her husband Oliver died only a year earlier.) Baffled, her children contemplate how these changes will affect their careers and inheritances. Meanwhile, the narrative turns to Barty Miller, Celia's adopted daughter, who runs Lytton's New York and controls the majority share of the house thanks to her first husband's wealth, and Barty's headstrong daughter, Jenna. Barty also marries again, to Charlie Patterson, a smooth operator of relatively modest means who turns out not to be all that he appears to be. As this page-turner nears its conclusion, the Lytton family fortunes come under threat from the resentful Charlie. Will Barty and Jenna manage to preserve the Lytton legacy? Period color, deliciously shocking revelations and showy characterizations heighten this romance, which should be one of the summer's guilty pleasures.
