BOOK #4
Distraught over her younger sister Susans decision to leave for America and weary of shepherding her employer Mrs Frogertons daughter in her relentless pursuit of marrying a peer, Caroline is dealt another blow when her family solicitors indicate they may have found the lost heir to the Morton earldom. Possible heir Thomas, his mother Mrs Scutton, and her widowed daughter Mary all descend on Mrs Frogertons home on Half Moon Street. The air inside the house is soon thick with family tension and the near palpable presence of avarice. But things go from tense to tragic following the appearance of Marys dead husbandvery much alive and recently released from debtorsprison. Unseen by Caroline and Mrs Frogerton, a fight breaks out upstairs, leaving Mary fatally stabbed and her mother wounded. The manhunt is on for Marys husband, led by Inspector Ross. But both Caroline and Mrs Frogerton begin to suspect that all is not as it seems The Scuttons have brought more than trouble into the homethey may be harboring secrets that could put Caroline and Mrs Frogertons very lives at risk.
