Spoils Of Time Books In Publication Order
- No Angel (2000)
- Something Dangerous (2001)
- Into Temptation (2002)
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Spoils Of Time Books Overview
No Angel
With more than 3.5 million copies sold, Penny Vincenzi is one of the world’s preeminent writers of popular fiction and American readers no longer have to miss out on the fun. With the publication of No Angel, a novel introducing the engaging cast of characters in the Lytton family, Overlook opens a thrilling new dimension to this author’s already illustrious career. No Angel is an irresistibly sweeping saga of power, family politics, and passion a riveting drama and a fervent love story. Celia Lytton is the beautiful and strong willed daughter of wealthy aristocrats and she is used to getting her way. She moves through life making difficult and often dangerous decisions that affect herself and others her husband, Oliver, and their children; the destitute Sylvia Miller, whose life is transformed by Celia’s intrusion; as well as Oliver’s daunting elder sister, who is not all she appears to be; and Sebastian Brooke, for whom Celia makes the most dangerous decision of all. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of London and New York in the First World War, No Angel is, as British Good Housekeeping wrote, ‘an absorbing page turner, packed with believable characters and satisfyingly extreme villains, eccentrics, and manipulators.’ Readers of Maeve Binchy, Barbara Taylor Bradford, and Anita Shreve will fall in love with this epic, un put downable novel.
Something Dangerous
Part two of the momentous SPOILS OF TIME trilogy The dazzling Lytton twins, Adele and Venetia, are born into the great Lytton publishing empire. In 1928, on their eighteenth birthday, they are rich and admired, with a confidence verging on arrogance. But the spectre of Na*zi Germany is growing…
Gradually their privileged world darkens in unimaginable ways but it is not just the twins whose lives have been irrevocably changed. Barty Miller, rescued from the London slums in babyhood by Celia Lytton, is clever, ambitious, and a complete contrast to the twins and she faces temptation of the most unexpected kind…
Penny Vincenzi began her career at Vogue and Tatler, later working as Fashion and Beauty Editor on magazines such as Woman’s Own , before becoming a contributing editor for Cosmopolitan . She is the author of two humorous books and eleven previous novels. Penny Vincenzi is married with four daughters.
Into Temptation
Into Temptation, the third book of the Lytton family trilogy, shifts the focus to New York City and Barty Miller. Rescued from the slums as a baby by Celia Lytton and now living in New York, Barty heads more than half of the Lytton publishing house. Falling on bad times, the family is worried that Barty will make a business decision that would be devastating to them. But will she? As events unfold, long buried secrets concerning the whole family are revealed, shaking the very foundations of the Lytton’s world. An enthralling epic of the glamorous life in the mid 20th century with scenery that extends from New York to London, Into Temptation gives apt and telling insights into the world of the British aristocracy and their literary legacy. Readers have come to depend on Vincenzi for her enchanting prose style and the epic scope of her dramas: like the Lytton family sagas that precede it, Into Temptation does not disappoint.