Devil May Care (Peters novel)

Devil-May-Care (spelled Devil May Care in later editions) is a novel of romantic suspense published by Elizabeth Peters in 1977.

It is the sixth of nine "stand alone" books written by prolific author Barbara Mertz under the Elizabeth Peters pseudonym.

(The vast majority of novels written under the Barbara Michaels pseudonym are stand alones.)

[1] Young, beautiful Ellie is to house-sit for her wealthy and eccentric Aunt Kate, who lives in one of the oldest towns in Virginia, founded in the 17th century by six families from England.

Descendants of the six founding families quarrel and interfere as Ellie and a neighbor, Donald Gold, attempt to sort out what is fakery, what is malice, and what might be supernatural.