Tall, sandy haired and with golden feline eyes. What better model could her eccentric aunt find for the heroine of her latest anonymous romance novel?But the plot of life proved far richer than fiction. For when Valerie arrived at her aunt's country estate, she suddenly found herself in the midst of society seances and chicanery. There secret passages hid stolen jewels, and money changed hands as fast as Val changed gowns. Distant French cousins and dashingly attractive, if poor, scholars, turned out to be as intangible as ghosts and as flimsy as certain 'famous' fortunes. It all proved to be as illusive and longed for as love...