The Last Mrs Summers

Lady Georgiana Rannoch is just back from her honeymoon with dashing Darcy O''Mara when a friend in need pulls her into a twisted Gothic tale of betrayal, deception and, most definitely, murder. . . .

I am a bit at loose ends at the moment. My cook, Queenie, is making my new role as mistress of Eynsleigh something akin to constant torture as Darcy is off on another one of his top secret jaunts. And Grandad is busy helping wayward youths avoid lives of crime. So when my dearest friend, Belinda, inherits an old cottage in Cornwall and begs me to go with her to inspect the property, I jump at the chance.

After a heart-stopping journey in Belinda''s beast of a motorcar, we arrive at the creaky old cottage called White Sails and quickly realize that it is completely uninhabitable. Just when I''m starting to wonder if I would have been better off trying to get Queenie to cook a roast that hasn''t been burnt beyond all recognition, we meet Rose Summers, a woman Belinda knew as