Agatha Award winning author Dianne Freeman returns to Victorian England, as the future Mrs. George Hazelton, Americanborn Countess of Harleigh, encounters a young French woman with the shocking claim that she is the rightful Mrs. Hazelton...For Frances Wynn, widow to the late Earl of Harleigh, life has a cosmopolitan flavor of late. No sooner has she sent her mother and daughter off on a shopping trip to Paris than she and her fianc, George Hazelton, are socializing with visiting members of the Russian royal family. Amid this whirlwind, scandal also comes calling when Inspector Delaney turns up outside Francess house with a young French woman with a shocking claim she is Mrs. George Hazelton.As the future Mrs. George Hazelton, Frances assumes the woman is either lying or demented. Mrs. Hazelton, aka Irena, makes other outrageous statements. Among them, she insists that she is the illegitimate daughter of Russian royalty, that she has been abducted many times, and that someone is sending her threatening letters. When George arrives, he clarifies that he is certainly not married to Irenathough he can confirm her royal parentage. But even as he agrees to investigate whether Irenas life is in danger, her claim proves tragically true. Irena is found strangled in Frances garden.To uncover a killerand clear their own namesFrances and George must determine which of Irenas outlandish stories were based in fact. And as the search reaches a shocking conclusion, they may find that...
Binding: Paperback;288 pages; Publisher: Kensington Publishing; Classification: FA; Weight: 416 g; Dimensions: 140 x 210 x 26
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