Something Dangerous: Scandal, secrets and forbidden love in the epic second novel of bestselling THE SPOILS OF TIME trilogy

Penny Vincenzi

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The dazzling twin daughters of the beautiful Lady Celia Lytton are born into the family's publishing empire and, at age eighteen, are beginning to take their charmed world for granted. In contrast, their adopted sister, Barty, rescued from the London slums in babyhood, is ever more aware of how she came to be where she is.

It is 1928, and the spectre of Nazi Germany is growing...soon, all three girls will find their lives irrevocably changed by a dark and dangerous war. And each must find a way of surviving, living - and even loving.

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  • Penny Vincenzi dazzlingly combines the old-fashioned virtues of gripping storytelling with the up-to-the-minute contemporary feel for emotional depth and insight into the lives of the characters. She is a supreme stylist and clever writer.Highly addictive - Daily TelegraphEvery Penny Vincenzi is a guaranteed bestseller - GraziaSeductively readable - The Times

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Penny Vincenzi

Penny Vincenzi, who died in 2018, was one of the UK's best-loved and most popular authors, known for her epic period and contemporary novels. After her debut, Old Sins, was first published in 1989, she went on to write sixteen more bestselling novels and two collections of stories. She began her career as a junior secretary for Vogue magazine and went on to work at The Daily Mirror, Tatler, and later as a journalist and editor on magazines such as Woman's Own and Cosmopolitan. Over seven million copies of Penny Vincenzi's books have been sold worldwide and she is universally held to be the 'doyenne of the modern blockbuster' (Glamour).

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