Stephanie Laurens

Tristan Wemyss, Earl of Trentham, has a most unexpected challenge: like all men of his class, he must find a suitable wife, but within a year, and if he fails, he must forfeit his inheritance. Despite the many alluring young women paraded before him, he picks his neighbour, Miss Leonora Carling. Spirited, educated, and no man's fool, Leonora meets his...

#1 NYT-bestselling author Stephanie Laurens is back with a challenging case in which, from the first, the Adairs and Inspector Stokes are under significant pressure to identify the murderer of a powerful nobleman. When the Earl of Moran is found bludgeoned to death in his study, the finger is pointed at his mother's companion, Mary Alder, who the earl had...