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Devil-may-care

Elizabeth Peters

1977200 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1977
first published
  • 1978Cassell · 275 pages · ENGISBN 9780304300006
  • 1981Coronet · 240 pages · ENGISBN 9780340250815
  • 1989Tom Doherty · 250 pages · ENGISBN 9780812507898
  • 2001Avon Books · 341 pages · ENGISBN 9780380731152
  • 2006HarperCollins · ENGISBN 9780061153129
  • 2013Blackstone Audio IncISBN 9781470886769
  • 2007Blackstone Audio Inc. · ENGISBN 9780786158539
  • 2007Blackstone Audio Inc. · 200 pages · ENGISBN 9780786158546

Ellie is young, rich, engaged and in love. These are the carefree days before marriage and new responsibility, and anything goes --including house-sitting at eccentric Aunt Kate's palatial estate in Burton, Virginia. Ellie feels right at home here with the nearly invisible housekeepers and the plethora of pets, but she soon realizes that there are disturbing secrets about the local aristocracy buried in a dusty old book she has carried into the mansion. And her sudden interest in the past is attracting a slew of unwelcome guests -- some of them living and some, perhaps not. And the terrible vegeance that Ellie and her friends seem to have aroused -- now aimed at them -- surely cannot be...satanic.

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