A TERRIBLE BEAUTY

By Tasha Alexander

“A Terrible Beauty,” the newest book in Alexander’s extraordinary Lady Emily series, is certainly one of the very best. Sending readers to a stunning location, the island of Santorini in Greece, the scenery of this ancient world is as unforgettable as the plot.

Lady Emily feels for her friend Jeremy, whose heart has just been broken. She’s also a woman who feels that Greece is the “best of the best” when it comes to taking one’s mind off their problems. Therefore, she and her husband Colin take Jeremy to Greece for some fun and a little cool history to cheer him up.

They love the tours and are trying with all their might to help Jeremy put a smile on his face. Trouble is, Lady Emily is the one who’s about to feel ill. At their island villa, a man comes up to her claiming that he is Lord Philip Ashton, Colin’s best friend and Emily’s first husband who died on safari soon after they were married. Emily barely has any recollection of him and has trouble believing that he’s who he says he is.

His appearance has changed, of course, in the last ten years, yet he’s privy to many details of Emily’s life. His claim for not returning is that he was attacked by friends of a man who deals in illegal antiques; a man who’s positive that Philip is in possession of an ancient treasure.

Lady Emily and Colin are determined to find out the truth about this so-called Philip, as well as this mysterious treasure. But with this “ghost” of a husband and a dealer who will stop at nothing to get what he wants, Emily is in far more danger than she thinks.

This is a truly fantastic story. Plot is incredible, and Lady Emily and the gang, as always, are as vivid as the Grecian world. Readers and fans of Tasha Alexander will be over the moon for this one!