The Great War has just ended and Spanish Flu is decimating the population. Ravenswood Hall remains isolated from the world on an island off the rocky coast of Maine.
Having lost everything, Emmaline West arrives at the gothic mansion, hunting her dead sister's fiancé. But instead of the heartless monster she is set on killing, she finds Garrick Coleridge is a broken man, tormented by a secret he risked his life on the battlefield to escape.
When a member of the household is murdered, suspicion falls on Emmaline. Plunged into the shadowy lives of the Coleridge clan, she is forced to seek Garrick's help to clear her name.
A clean historical mystery with a dash of romance.
The real Constance Kent lived to be 100 years old. Though she was tried and convicted of murder when she was a teenager, she managed to escape the noose. I think she did it and I believe I know why, although it remains an enduring mystery to armchair sleuths.
I am an author, mother, and binge-watcher of emotionally-charged episodic television. I haven't killed anyone - except in books. In finding my romance-footing, I've lurched from small town romantic comedy set in 1987 to an erotic medieval romance series set in the time of King John. Heat levels vary in my catalogue so mind how you go.