

He ordered her portrait with Renoir in Paris. Of course she knows it’s too late but still she cannot help herself. A young widow is falling in love with her late husband – but only when she has enough time to explore and appreciate all aspects of his character. I really liked the premise and the beginning of this one – mainly because it wasn’t your ordinary romance. To complicate matters, she’s juggling two very prominent and wealthy suitors, one of whose intentions may go beyond matrimony into darker realms. Emily’s desire to learn more about her late husband leads her through the quiet corners of the British Museum and into a dangerous mystery involving rare stolen artifacts.


Philip’s death while on safari soon after their wedding left Emily feeling little grief, for she barely knew the dashing stranger.īut her discovery of his journals nearly two years later reveals a far different man than she imagined-a gentleman scholar and antiquities collector who apparently loved his new wife deeply. Emily agreed to wed Philip, the Viscount Ashton, primarily to escape her overbearing mother.
