The Scott-De Quincy Mysteries
As the sixth daughter, I’d spent my youth surrounded by other people, but since my marriage to Justin, I’d grown accustomed to the peace and spaciousness of Whitcombe House. Our world had revolved around the two of us, and we’d been happy. For me, that happiness had been all the more precious since I’d already lost one love, my cousin Daniel—and now my darling Justin had followed him to the grave.
Lady Helena Investigates
1881, Sussex. Lady Helena Scott-De Quincy’s marriage to Sir Justin Whitcombe gave new purpose to a life almost destroyed by the death of Helena’s first love. Helena is content with her quiet country life until Sir Justin is found dead in the river overlooked by their grand baroque mansion. The intrusion of attractive, mysterious French physician Armand Fortier, with his meddling theory of murder, into Helena’s first weeks of mourning is bad enough. But with her initial ineffective efforts at investigation and her attempts to revive her long-abandoned interest in herbalism comes the realization that she may have been mistaken about her own family’s past.
Lady Odelia’s Secret
Do you ever really know your family?
In the 1880’s a sixth daughter learns not to ask for much, even if she’s the daughter of an earl, married the richest man in her corner of Sussex, and is now a widow with a splendid Georgian mansion.
Lady Helena Whitcombe is still trying to reconcile her family loyalties with her desires when her artist sister Odelia suggests she makes her mark on Whitcombe House. Why not commission a magnificent work of art from one of London’s most celebrated painters?
Lady Odelia invites Helena into her seductive, bohemian world of art, fantasy and fairy tales. But when a shocking series of events exposes the destructive reality of a great artist’s unusual lifestyle, Helena and her lady’s maid Guttridge are called on to help - or is it to interfere?
Looming danger, the risk of scandal, and competing loyalties force Helena to re-evaluate her relationship with her favorite sister.
What is Lady Odelia’s secret? Find out in this gripping continuation of the Scott-de Quincy Mysteries, a story that blends mystery and historical detail with Downton Abbey-style saga as the truths about Helena’s aristocratic family unfold.
Read it now before the secret gets out!