Loving Lily: A Victorian Romantic Suspense
About this audiobook
He thinks she's a charlatan trading on other people’s misery.
She thinks he's a moralistic prig who considers her beyond the pale.
Neither realises they're a hostage to other people’s ambitions until…
Lily Eustace, darling of the spiritualist world, has a secret.
In fact, her entire past is a secret.
As Lily “summons the spirits” at Mrs Moore’s Wednesday night séances, her increasingly popular performances attract a strange following—including the key suspect in a recent murder.
When principled newspaper editor, Hamish McTavish, is sold a photograph of Lily ‘Eustace’, he is certain the celebrated woman of intrigue is the guttersnipe he chased into a brothel after she stole his sister's bonnet.
But as Hamish unravels the mystery of the woman who summons the loved ones of London’s aristocracy from beyond the grave, he discovers Lily’s claims are not the lies of a charlatan.
And unless he can track down her enemies in time, Hamish fears the grave is where Lily – and his heart – are destined.
Gaslighting, secrets, and a love that transcends all is at the heart of this Victorian-set enemies-to-lovers romantic mystery.
About the author
Beverley was seventeen when she bundled up her first 500+ page romance and sent it to a publisher. Rejection followed swiftly. Drowning one’s heroine on the last page, she was informed, was not in line with the expectations of romance readers.
So Beverley became a journalist.
After a whirlwind romance with a handsome Norwegian bush pilot she met in Botswana's beautiful Okavango Delta, Beverley discovered what real romance was all about, saved her heroine from a watery grave in her next manuscript and published her first romance in 2009.
Since then, she’s written more than twenty-eight sizzling historical romances laced with mystery and intrigue under the name Beverley Oakley.
She also writes psychological historical mysteries, and Colonial-Africa-set romantic suspense, as Beverley Eikli.
With an inspiring view of a Gothic nineteenth-century insane asylum across the road, Beverley lives north of Melbourne with her gorgeous husband, two lovely daughters and a rambunctious Rhodesian Ridgeback called Mombo, named after the safari lodge where she and her husband met.
