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Lady Odelia's Secret: The Scott-De Quincy Mysteries, #2
Lady Odelia's Secret: The Scott-De Quincy Mysteries, #2
Lady Odelia's Secret: The Scott-De Quincy Mysteries, #2
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Lady Odelia's Secret: The Scott-De Quincy Mysteries, #2

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Do you ever really know your family?

 

In the 1880s a sixth daughter learns not to ask for much, even if she's the daughter of an earl. Even if she married the richest man in her corner of Sussex. Even if she's now a widow with a splendid Georgian mansion.

 

Lady Helena Whitcombe is still trying to adjust to widowhood and reconcile her family loyalties with her desires when her artist sister Odelia makes a startling suggestion. Why not make her mark on the house that's now all hers, by commissioning a magnificent work of art from one of London's most celebrated painters?

 

Lady Odelia invites Helena into the seductive world of medieval fantasies and fairy tales she has inhabited since Helena was a child. 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 the sister she's always loved the most.

 

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!

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Release dateMar 7, 2022
ISBN9781913810184
Lady Odelia's Secret: The Scott-De Quincy Mysteries, #2
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Jane Steen

Jane Steen has lived in three countries but is now back in her native England, living on the south east coast. She’s always had one foot in the past and loves to write fiction set in the nineteenth century, drawing on Victorian traditions of mystery, melodrama, and hauntings. She’s passionate about promoting quality indie publishing and great historical fiction, and writes feature articles for the Historical Novel Society, of which she’s an active member. She also participates in the work of the Alliance of Independent Authors and the 10-Minute Novelists, and was the originator of the Ethical Author Code and the 365K Challenge.

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    An indie author worth reading! A little slow-paced, but full of interesting (and accurate!) details of the period. Not really a mystery, not really a romance, but enough of each to keep the story going.

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