#1 New York Timesbestselling author Stephanie Laurens brings you a tale of emerging and also established love and the many facets of family, interwoven with mystery and murder.A young lady accused of theft and the gentleman who elects himself her champion enlist the aid of Stokes, Barnaby, Penelope, and friends in pursuing justice, only to find themselves tangled in a web of interfamily tensions and secrets.When Miss Cara Di Abaccio is accused of stealing the Carisbrook emeralds by the infamously arrogant Lady Carisbrook and marched out of her guardians house by Scotland Yards finest, Barnaby Adairs cousin Hugo Adair takes umbrage and descends on Scotland Yard, breathing fire in Caras defense.Hugo discovers Inspector Stokes has been assigned to the case, and after surveying the evidence thus far, Stokes calls in his big guns when it comes to dealing with investigations in the tonnamely, the Honorable Barnaby Adair and his wife, Penelope.Soon convinced of Caras innocence and, given Hugos apparent tendre for Cara needing to clear her name, Penelope and Barnaby join Stokes and his team in pursuing the emeralds and, most importantly, who stole them.But the deeper our intrepid investigators delve into the Carisbrook household, the more certain they become that all is not as it should be. Lady Carisbrook is a harpy, Franklin Carisbrook is secretive, Julia Carisbrook is overly timid, and Lord Carisbrook, otherwise a genial and honorable gentleman, holds himself distant from his...

Binding: Paperback;228 pages; Publisher: Savdek Management Pty Ltd; Classification: N/A; Weight: 390.34 g; Dimensions: N/A

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