![]() ![]() There is Tynan, the kindly Earl, Lucia, his capable wife, handsome, volatile Eddie and sweet, sheltered sister Eleanor. Dita struggles to decipher the Jago family. The fresh-hewn stone, however, cannot absorb the blood of centuries or quiet the echoes of past crimes. On the grim Cornish coast, from the ashes of a ruined castle rises the Jagos’ sumptuous new manor house. ![]() As deceptions go, it is innocent compared with what is to come. ![]() The charade is a favor to Dita’s best friend, Eddie Jago, a dissolute painter, and the aforementioned heir. But now she’s not so much striking a pose as playing a role, as fiancée to the next Earl of Athal. In the artistic circles of 1860s Paris she is known as the Divine Dita, Montmartre’s most sought-after nude model. ![]()
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