Black Rainbow - Barbara Michaels Audiobook

Written by Barbara Michaels
Read by Barbara Rosenblat
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:1991/reissue 2008
Publisher: Recorded Books

An old-fashioned gothic romance set in England in the waning days of the Crimean War.

Megan O’Neill sees it hanging in the sky above the towers of Grayhaven Manor — a beautiful yet sinister black rainbow— a warning to the estate’s new governess to stay away?

Her employer, Edmund Mandeville, is not there and instead his bright, capable and rather eccentric sister Jane, and her ward, Caroline, greet her. At only three years of age, Carolina (Lina) needs a nursemaid more than a governess but once at Grayhaven, Megan stays on.

The warmth and kindness of the Mandeville family banish her fears — and her hypnotic obsession for her handsome, mysterious new employer, newly returned from the war, blinds her to the darkness within. But desire always has its price. And the shocking secrets enclosed in Grayhaven’s walls threaten to pull Megan into the terrifying shadows, never to emerge again.

Though the pace moves slowly in Black Rainbow, there are definitely some dark secrets and evil doings waiting to be uncovered. This is over-the-top gothic worthy of Victoria Holt.