To Love, Honour & Betray: Book 2 in the Belleville family trilogy (Belleville Family Series) - Tapa blanda

It's 10 years since the end of book 1, The House of Secrets: Julia's Story which introduced the Belleville family of Prior Park, their secrets and betrayals.Now, in book 2, To Love, Honour & Betray, Elizabeth Belleville, the family matriarch, continues to dominate the lives of her three children: Richard, William and Julia. Richard's marriage to Catherine is under pressure as her dissatisfaction with life in Australia grows more apparent. It is the unexpected events in her aristocratic family that draw her back to her English life. Will Richard join her or remain committed to his life in Australia?Julia Belleville, now Fitzroy, continues to mourn the daughter she was forced to give up and the American Army captain she loved and lost, while her husband James begins to look elsewhere.Hundreds of miles from the Belleville family's grand Australian home, a terrible accident robs a young girl of her parents. It is only later that we see the consequences of this tragedy.Far way in New York, successful surgeon Dr Philippe Duval, the man Julia loved and lost, hears unexpected news from the past that brings him back to Australia, a country he thought he would never visit again.And what of Alistair McGovern, the late Francis Belleville's bastard son? Now an adult, he demands his share of the Belleville fortune and to be part of the Belleville family but he is spurned by the two brothers, Richard and William, who will do almost anything to ensure that their father's terrible secret never reaches their mother. When he is finally rejected, his anger and disappointment lead him in only one direction.In this book, for each of the Belleville family, there are long buried secrets from the past that will begin to surface to reveal the depths of the betrayals within their midst and the bitter legacy for those who remain. In a dramatic finale, Prior Park itself must pay a price as the secrets and betrayals are brutally revealed.

J Mary Masters (Judith) was born in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia in the 1950s, the youngest of four children. She is married to Peter. For more than twenty years, Judith has been involved in the magazine publishing industry as a managing editor and publisher. With plans to retire from full time work in 2017, Judith plans to devote more of her time to her writing career, with emphasis on writing for women readers. She is a member of the Queensland Writers Centre (QWC) and the Australian Society of Authors (ASA).