Love never runs smoothly in a Peter Rogers novel, and there's no exception to that rule in The Feud, the tale of two rival families set in a bygone age. When Andrew Drummond is only twelve years old he meets the Ashleys, a family whose members will change his life forever. Andrew learns that long ago his forebear and lookalike, another Andrew Drummond, had married and then strangled his bride, the beautiful Carla Ashley, on their honeymoon. This mysterious act of violence has set in motion the family feud that persists to ...
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Love never runs smoothly in a Peter Rogers novel, and there's no exception to that rule in The Feud, the tale of two rival families set in a bygone age. When Andrew Drummond is only twelve years old he meets the Ashleys, a family whose members will change his life forever. Andrew learns that long ago his forebear and lookalike, another Andrew Drummond, had married and then strangled his bride, the beautiful Carla Ashley, on their honeymoon. This mysterious act of violence has set in motion the family feud that persists to the young Andrew's day, spawning an obsession on the part of old Lord Ashley that a recurrence of the tragedy must be prevented. But while Andrew is a dead ringer for his ancestral murderous namesake, there is no contemporary equivalent for his beautiful wife, Carla. There is only the enigmatic Ashley heir, Carl, around whom bizarre rumours swirl and whose features are uncannily like those of the woman who died at the hands of her husband...
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