Lady Helena Investigates

<p><strong>A reluctant lady sleuth finds she's investigating her own family.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>1881 Sussex. With a drowned husband-the second love lost-an overbearing family no longed-for child and the responsibility of a huge baroque mansion it's not surprising Lady Helena Whitcombe is overwhelmed. When attractive mysterious French physician Armand Fortier disturbs her first weeks of mourning with his theory of murder Helena's reluctant and ineffective attempts at investigation are hardly life-changing-until the resulting revival in her long-abandoned herbalist studies bring her into confrontation with her past and her family's.</p><p><br></p><p>Can Lady Helena survive bereavement the second time around? Can she stand up to her six siblings' assumption of the right to control her new life as a widow? And what role will Fortier-who as a physician is a most unsuitable companion for an earl's daughter-play in her investigations?</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Every family has its secrets. The Scott-De Quincy family has more than most.</strong></p>