What do you think?
Rate this book
Triptych
Both Miranda Cabot and her sister Honor prefer their solitude to romance, Miranda having watched her husband die in flames on the Potomac River rocks called the Three Sisters. Not so the youngest, Sybil, who invites a mysterious Frenchman calling himself the Chevalier due bon Arnaque to stay with them in their mansion overlooking the Sisters.
Misgivings about the stranger’s intentions lead Miranda and Honor to ask their neighbors Dieter Heiliger and his grandson Corey to chaperone. Three beautiful, strong-willed women living in a house with three handsome, virile men results inevitably in an intricate web of jealousy, sex, and intrigue. Add in long-lost master artworks, stolen prototypes and a resident genius and you have a recipe for romance.
Who will end up with whom, and will the Three Sisters take another life as the legend calls for?
Misgivings about the stranger’s intentions lead Miranda and Honor to ask their neighbors Dieter Heiliger and his grandson Corey to chaperone. Three beautiful, strong-willed women living in a house with three handsome, virile men results inevitably in an intricate web of jealousy, sex, and intrigue. Add in long-lost master artworks, stolen prototypes and a resident genius and you have a recipe for romance.
Who will end up with whom, and will the Three Sisters take another life as the legend calls for?
ebook
First published November 1, 2011
6 people want to read
About the author
M.S. Spencer
21 books238 followers Although M. S. Spencer has lived or traveled on five continents, the last 30 years have been spent mostly in Washington, D.C. as a librarian, Congressional staff assistant, speechwriter, editor, birdwatcher, kayaker, policy wonk, non-profit director and parent. Once she escaped academia, she worked for the U.S. Senate, the U.S. Department of the Interior, in several library systems, both public and academic, and at the Torpedo Factory Art Center. She holds a BA from Vassar College, a Diploma in Arabic Studies from the American University in Cairo, and Masters in Anthropology and in Library Science from the University of Chicago. Ms. Spencer has two fabulous grown children and a perfect granddaughter. She divides her time between Maine and Florida.
Writing as M. S. Spencer, she has published sixteen cozy mystery and romantic suspense novels.
Writing as M. S. Spencer, she has published sixteen cozy mystery and romantic suspense novels.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews
July 31, 2013
Funny, flirty, and downright sizzling in a few places.
Triptych is a tale of three sisters. They all live together in a mansion on the bank of the Potomac River.
Sybil is the youngest, and keeps her older sisters on their toes with her propensity for flitting around willy nilly and lifting her skirts.
Honor is the oldest and more staid of the three, kind of like their fairy godmother, tempering their rash decisions.
Miranda is the middle child and seems to be the most grounded. She’s funny, self-confident and adventurous.
When Sybil takes an off the cuff comment seriously and goes to Craig’s List to find an aristocrat for a companion, the other sisters, after getting over the shock of someone actually answering the ad, decide to let the mysterious Luc Rever, Chevalier du Bon Aranaque, come and stay for a week. Who knows, maybe it’ll work and she’ll land her man.
Just as a precaution, they invite a family friend, Dieter, and his visiting grandson, Corey, to stay at the house while the stranger is visiting.
Pretty soon this quaint life on the river is thrown topsy-turvy as the sisters are drawn into the middle of an art theft.
In the beginning, the story flows smoothly along the shores of the Potomac, but as you read on, it picks up pace, the current rushes around the configuration of the three rocks called The Three Sisters, and as you get caught up in the chase, you end up in the rapids, rushing to the conclusion.
Triptych may be categorized as erotic, but I found more developed romance than just beyond the bedroom door scenes.
It was fun watching these sisters interact and live together. I sometimes felt like I was in another time. A step back to when life was gentler, more family oriented.
Then, situations jolt me back to the present as characters step forward and take charge.
Filled with pictorial surroundings and down to earth characters, Triptych is a grand adventure with a sensual bouquet of women looking for love.
I have three older sisters and we are all so different. Triptych took me back to when we all lived under one roof. Wow, what wonderful, outrageous fun we had. We may have gotten on each others nerves now and then, but in a pinch we were a united front, a Triptych plus one!
I received this book for my honest review.
Triptych is a tale of three sisters. They all live together in a mansion on the bank of the Potomac River.
Sybil is the youngest, and keeps her older sisters on their toes with her propensity for flitting around willy nilly and lifting her skirts.
Honor is the oldest and more staid of the three, kind of like their fairy godmother, tempering their rash decisions.
Miranda is the middle child and seems to be the most grounded. She’s funny, self-confident and adventurous.
When Sybil takes an off the cuff comment seriously and goes to Craig’s List to find an aristocrat for a companion, the other sisters, after getting over the shock of someone actually answering the ad, decide to let the mysterious Luc Rever, Chevalier du Bon Aranaque, come and stay for a week. Who knows, maybe it’ll work and she’ll land her man.
Just as a precaution, they invite a family friend, Dieter, and his visiting grandson, Corey, to stay at the house while the stranger is visiting.
Pretty soon this quaint life on the river is thrown topsy-turvy as the sisters are drawn into the middle of an art theft.
In the beginning, the story flows smoothly along the shores of the Potomac, but as you read on, it picks up pace, the current rushes around the configuration of the three rocks called The Three Sisters, and as you get caught up in the chase, you end up in the rapids, rushing to the conclusion.
Triptych may be categorized as erotic, but I found more developed romance than just beyond the bedroom door scenes.
It was fun watching these sisters interact and live together. I sometimes felt like I was in another time. A step back to when life was gentler, more family oriented.
Then, situations jolt me back to the present as characters step forward and take charge.
Filled with pictorial surroundings and down to earth characters, Triptych is a grand adventure with a sensual bouquet of women looking for love.
I have three older sisters and we are all so different. Triptych took me back to when we all lived under one roof. Wow, what wonderful, outrageous fun we had. We may have gotten on each others nerves now and then, but in a pinch we were a united front, a Triptych plus one!
I received this book for my honest review.
December 30, 2011
A very romantic To Catch a Thief. This may be titled an erotic romance, but the eroticism is tempered with a great deal of romance. The dialogue is witty, the descriptions are poetic and lush, and the story is an entertaining and very funny one.
It’s a question of whether the Tryptich is the rock formation called the Three Sisters in the Potomac River or the three sisters in the Queen Anne mansion on its banks, but either way, you’ll enjoy this tale of art theft, thwarted romance, and two people who dare to face it all.
It’s a question of whether the Tryptich is the rock formation called the Three Sisters in the Potomac River or the three sisters in the Queen Anne mansion on its banks, but either way, you’ll enjoy this tale of art theft, thwarted romance, and two people who dare to face it all.
Displaying 1 - 2 of 2 reviews