If You Give A Rake A Ruby (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
Not because she wanted to be close to him. He was holding the lamp, and she didn’t relish the thought of standing in the dark, empty building by herself. The walls of the room were black silk, as were the draperies and all of the furnishings. Except the bed. That was covered in a blood-red silk coverlet. Or at least it had been. Someone had ransacked the room and overturned the bed. It appeared the coverlet had been thrown over the bed as an afterthought. It looked very much like a splash of blood. “I’ve never been here before,” she said. And she didn’t want to come back. “I assume it’s Lucifer’s private room.” “Not exactly to your taste,” Fitzhugh said, strolling about, lifting objects here and there as though he was unaffected by the eerie style of furnishing. Perhaps he wasn’t. She knew very little about him. If Juliette and Pelham hadn’t been away from Town, she would have gone to her friend’s husband immediately and asked him for more information on Fitzhugh.
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