A Treacherous Performance

<p><strong>Having inexplicably nabbed the Duke of Kesgrave twenty-six-year-old spinster Beatrice Hyde-Clare is determined to marry him at once.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>And no amount of handwringing from anxious family members worried friends and well-meaning acquaintances will convince her to delay. Except...maybe she is a <em>little</em>swayed by her uncle's efforts to make amends for treating her with cold indifference during her childhood. While her aunt's concern about the growing scandal around her unfortunate habit of unmasking murderers in the middle of society events isn't <em>entirely</em> unfounded.</p><p>Then there's the truly unfathomable appearance on her doorstep of the former Miss Brougham the spiteful heiress whose cruel taunts derailed Bea's social career. Remarkably the society matron has a mystery to solve and knows Bea is the only person who can help her. A dead grandfather a missing jewel a cryptic letter an opportunity to condescend to her archnemesis-the case seems simple enough.</p><p><strong>And yet somehow it all goes terribly horribly wrong.</strong></p>