'Blackground deals with guilty secrets, greed, betrayal and murder. Joan Aiken knows her trade.' London Review of Books. Cat Conwil is an actress on the brink of fame - will love be her saviour of her downfall?Cat lands a starring role in a TV adaptation of Middlemarch shooting on location at the splendid Knoyle Court. There, she's pursued by the estate's owner millionaire James Tybold - they fall for eachother hard and fast, marry and embark on the honeymoon of a lifetime.
But only in romantic Venice as they start getting to really know each other do they uncover the shocking truth - that they met before, many years ago .
'Blackground deals with guilty secrets, greed, betrayal and murder. Joan Aiken knows her trade.' London Review of Books. Cat Conwil is an actress on the brink of fame - will love be her saviour of her downfall?Cat lands a starring role in a TV adaptation of Middlemarch shooting on location at the splendid Knoyle Court. There, she's pursued by the estate's owner millionaire James Tybold - they fall for eachother hard and fast, marry and embark on the honeymoon of a lifetime.
But only in romantic Venice as they start getting to really know each other do they uncover the shocking truth - that they met before, many years ago .