Lady Julia Grey

For Lady Julia Grey, her husband's sudden death at a dinner party is extremely inconvenient. However, things take a turn for the worse when inscrutable private investigator Nicholas Brisbane reveals that the death was not due to natural causes. Drawn away from her comfortable, conventional life, Julia is exposed to threatening notes, secret societies and gypsy curses, not to mention Nicholas' charismatic unpredictability.

England, 1887. Returning home to Sussex after a jaunt in Italy, Lady Julia Grey’s eccentric family and friends have gathered to keep Christmas in Bellmont Abbey. Lady Julia is soon immersed in mystery when one of the guests at her father's estate is murdered and a member of her family confesses to the crime.

Devastated by her fall in society, Lady Julia travels to Grimsgrave Manor on the Yorkshire moors. She becomes immersed in a mystery involving her lover, a Gypsy witch and a long-buried legacy of malevolence and evil. It’s not long before her desire for answers leads her into danger unlike any other that she has experienced – and from which, this time, there may be no escape.

After eight months in the Mediterranean, Lady Julia Grey and her husband are ready to put their investigative talents to work once more. At the urging of Julia's family, they hurry to India to aid an old friend, the newly widowed Jane Cavendish. Jane is consumed with discovering the truth about her husband's death. Was he murdered for his estate? And if he was, could Jane and her unborn child be next?

While setting up housekeeping in London, newlyweds Lady Julia and Nicholas Brisbane agree to help Julia's brother expose the exclusive Ghost Club, a dark place where reputations and trust are destroyed, but find their own relationship in danger when their investigation makes the headlines.