I am a very big fan of Victoria Holt. This was one of my favorites.
This is the book dreams are made of. It is absolutely wonderful! Suspense, lost & found love, mystery, it has everything. I will continue to recommend this book to everyone. Especially if you are looking for a book that you can read over and over again & never tire of, this is the book for you. If you are just looking for a book to retire at the end of the night w/ to ensure you have the most pleasant of slumbers, this is the book for you. Victoria Holt is a pure & genuine aurthoress and her book The Landower Legacy is certainly proof of that. It has become and will continue to be a book that is enjoyed by all walks of life & all generations, now & to come. Thank You Victoria Holt!
Back cover: Green-eyed Caroline Tressidor seemingly has her whole world before her - until the long-heralded occasion of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. When an exuberant Caroline views the magnificent royal procession with her mother and her handsome friend the dashing Captain Carmichael, she inadvertently becomes involved in a secret she blurts out to her father.
From that moment on, nothing is the same. Caroline watches her promising future dissolve - without knowing why. Determined to discover the truth, Caroline begins a search that will take her from the grandeur of London's society to the wild moors of Cornwall, a quest that will pit Caroline against her shy, pretty sister and the rules of a stern Victorian society. An adventure that will propel her into the arms of the dark, mysterious Paul Landower, trapped in his own past, the man of her dreams who might very well turn out to have a legacy of murder...
I loved the character Caroline Tressidor. She is strong willed, independent, and right from the beginning of the story it is easy to see that she differs in EXTREME ways from her sister Olivia. She is not one to be taken advantage of, although she did make one mistake concerning a young gentleman early in her life...When she goes to visit her aunt as a young child, she encounters the Landower brothers who live nearby. She is very taken with Paul, although at 13 years old cannot do anything about it. Four years later when she returns to see her aunt, she again encounters Paul and this time she is old enough for something to come of it. Paul Landower is a man of mystery; he is an enigma. The tension between the two is what kept me turning the pages, both very attracted to one another and forced to stay apart...The secret concerning Caroline's past and the mystery that shrouds Paul make the novel exciting and suspenseful. Did Paul commit murder? You'll have to read to find out. Look for it at the library, it's definatly worth your time.
In 1887, in the excitement of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee, fourteen-year-old Caroline Tressidor blurts out a secret. Though it is a secret she does not understand, her punishment is swift: Her beautiful mother disappears; her father banishes Caroline to a family estate in Cornwall. There, puzzled and lonely, she begins a search for understanding that takes her back to London and to heartbreak; sends her to the South of France and a romantic reunion with the man she has learned to love and fear; returns her to Cornwall, to tragedy and a desperate murderer; and ends ten years after its beginnings as she watches the plain little Queen celebrate her Diamond Jubilee.
