they unravel a web of secrets that threaten their relationship and their lives

or plaque build-up in the arteries

But he can't knock over Third Gator's house of stones

Caught up in the scramble is Ray Lilly

The Rector's Daughter Format:Paperback they unravel a web ofDedmayne Rectory is quietly decaying, its striped chintz and darkened rooms a bastion of outmoded Victorian values. Here Mary has spent 35 years devoting herself to her sister, now dead, and to her father, Canon Jocelyn. Although she is pitied by her neighbors for this muted existence, Mary is content. But when she meets Robert Herbert, Mary's ease is destroyed and years of suppressed emotion surface through her desire for him. First published in