NEVER LIE TO A LADY

Liz Carlyle

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Australia
• eBook ISBN:
  9780731810413
• Year: 2011

NEVER LIE TO A LADY follows the life of Xanthia Neville, a twenty-nine year old spinster, who was Martinique's aunt in the School for Heiresses short story. Xanthia was an impoverished orphan who grew up, along with her two brothers, in Barbados, where they inherited a run-down sugar plantation from their abusive, alcoholic uncle. They later started a shipping company which made them extremely rich. Years ago, the eldest brother died, leaving Xanthia to run the shipping company.

For political reasons, they eventually lease out the plantations to the African slaves who work them, and decide to relocate Neville Shipping to London so the business can expand.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Nash stepped from the shadows to block her path. “Looking for your Odysseus, Madame Circe?”
• Praise
• ALSO BY LIZ CARLYLE FROM POCKET BOOKS
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Prologue An Assignation in Crescent Mews Late Winter 1828
• Chapter One A Gala in Hanover Street Spring 1828
• Chapter Two A Row in Wapping High Street
• Chapter Three A Grave Misunderstanding in Mayfair
• Chapter Four An Intrigue in Berkeley Square
• Chapter Five A Shocking Proposal in Richmond
• Chapter Six A Sultry Afternoon in Wapping
• Chapter Seven A Flap in Park Lane
• Chapter Eight A Tryst at Horseferry Wharf
• Chapter Nine A Cup of Coffee in Park Lane
• Chapter Ten A Long Way from Yorkshire
• Chapter Eleven Gout & Gunpowder in the Docklands
• Chapter Twelve A Rendezvous in Hampshire
• Chapter Thirteen Temptation in the Garden of Earthly Delights
• Chapter Fourteen An Adventurous Assignation at Brierwood
• Chapter Fifteen Terrible Trouble in Hampshire
• Chapter Sixteen The Denouement in Paris
• Chapter Seventeen A Waltz in St. James
• EpilogueSafe Harbor by the Thames