Devil In A Silver Room
- Author: Violet Winspear
- Publisher: Harlequin Presents #5
- Year: 1973
- Setting: France
- Amazon Listing: Devil In A Silver Room - out of print
Book Description
Devil in a Silver room is a very well written book about two people wronged by love. The woman comes to the palatial French estate of a certain family to mind the young son. She is beautiful with starry blue eyes, and the rakish estate manager tries to chat her up while taking her to the castle across the river. But she'll have none of it, she has designs on another agenda.
This home holds the son of the man she loved, who has since died. The family wine vineyard and lands surround the castle in fertile abundance. The wife that now langushes abed is the woman who stood between her and happiness. The entire staff and household look on as this beautiful girl plays nursemaid to a difficult young boy. She tells herself she finds solace being with the child if the father is gone.
The child gets along, and the mother emerges back into her old life. The myth of the perfect lover slowly ebbs from the girl as family secrets are revealed. The estate manager is Paul, who runs everything at the Chateau. he watches and wonders about this stunning girl closeted with his nephew. Meanwhile she recovers from the memory of her dead love.
Paul is a the illegitimate son of the family matriarch, whose brother was lost. He watches the goings on of the nursemaid who has pretensions above her class and movie star looks. Others jealously notice as well. Before long a killing tension develops between them. The "Devil In a Silver Room" is the light in Paul's silver grey eyes when he watches her with love.
Paul discovers her secret and challenges her to look around for a better, more available man who will want her for herself as not as a beautiful possession. She knows now he would never have asked for a divorce. Paul waits for her to discover that another more worthy love is ready and waiting, but not before a violent pursuer in the shadows puts their love to the test.
