In the mountains of western North Carolina, the nation's largest private house has only recently been completed. Its owner, builder, and visionary has invited a small group of guests to stay for a week in January 1897. He hopes the company will provide a pleasant diversion... and possibly a candidate for matrimony, for one of New York's great beauties is among his visitors.But from the moment the guests arrive, tension starts to build: among the visitors, among the house staff, and between the two groups. Before their visit is over, blood will be spilled, secrets will be revealed, lifelong bonds will be formed, and a shy, bookish girl will be at the center of it all.(Please note that although this mystery is set at Biltmore mansion, no murder has ever been committed there. All characters except the house's owner, landscape architect, and chief forester are fictional, as are the events of this book.)
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