Loving Lily: A gripping Victorian romantic thriller

Beverley Oakley

Sep 2021 · Fair Cyprians of London Book 6 · Beverley Oakley

About this ebook

London, 1878

Lily, Lady Bradden, is a woman with secrets.

Fleeing her ruthless husband and a dark past, she finds unlikely refuge in Madame Chambon's Pleasure House, though she is not required to work in the flesh trade like Madame Chambon's other 'Fallen Angels'.

Forced to pose as a clairvoyant to summon the spirit of a nobleman's dead daughter whom she closely resembles, Lily walks a dangerous line between deception and survival.

Hamish McTavish, the principled editor of "Manners and Morals Magazine," is determined to expose Lily as a fraud. But his resolve wavers as an undeniable attraction sparks between them, challenging everything he believes.

As Lily and Hamish navigate their forbidden desires, a sinister plot unfolds. A murder at the pleasure house. A threatening Russian diplomat. And Lily's husband, who wants her silenced—permanently.

With her past closing in and her future uncertain, Lily must place her trust in the one man who doubts her most. Can Hamish uncover the truth before it's too late? Or will the lies that brought them together ultimately tear them apart?

"Loving Lily" is a seductive blend of passion and peril, where nothing is as it seems and love might be the most dangerous gamble of all.

It's Book 6 in the Fair Cyprians of London series but can be read as a standalone.

What readers are saying:

"A journey into the strange—I loved it!" — Kindle Reader

"Excellent villains and a super hero... A great addition to the series." — Kindle Reader

Ratings and reviews

Without doubt the most boring book I ever tried to read, After sixreen chapters I gave up and went bacK to "War And Peace". The characters ln loving Lily and the chaptera are disjointed, No one cares about Lily. She is dull and up until this point plods along as a vicrim who garners no sympathy and wants to see an end to this novel.

Interesting story, with twists and turns, if a bit too long

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.