Originally published in Trade Paperback
SummaryFresh from a six-month sojourn in Italy, Lady Julia
returns home to Sussex to find her father's estate crowded
with family and friends—but dark deeds are afoot at the
deconsecrated abbey, and a murderer roams the ancient
cloisters.
Much to her surprise, the one man she had hoped to
forget—the enigmatic and compelling Nicholas
Brisbane—is among her father's house guests...and he is
not alone. Not to be outdone, Julia shows him that two can
play at flirtation and promptly introduces him to her
devoted, younger, titled Italian count.
But the homecoming celebrations quickly take a ghastly turn
when one of the guests is found brutally murdered in the
chapel, and a member of Lady Julia's own family confesses to
the crime. Certain of her cousin's innocence, Lady Julia
resumes her unlikely and deliciously intriguing partnership
with Nicholas Brisbane, setting out to unravel a tangle of
deceit before the killer can strike again. When a sudden
snowstorm blankets the abbey like a shroud, it falls to Lady
Julia and Nicholas Brisbane to answer the shriek of murder
most foul.
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