![]() Raybourn’s latest mystery is as lively and adventurous as the previous installment ( A Treacherous Curse, 2018). Did she commit suicide? Is she in hiding? Was she murdered? Veronica decides to find out, exploring the mansion’s most intriguing secrets-hidden passageways, a poison garden, a salaciously illustrated harpsichord. ![]() Stoker, uninvited, joins, and when they arrive, they realize Malcolm Romilly’s mansion is haunted by the three-year mystery of his bride, who went missing on their wedding night. In exchange for a rare specimen of butterfly, she agrees to pose as his fiancée when he visits an old friend, Malcolm Romilly. When she returns six months later, she still finds Stoker irresistible, so she flees again-this time at the invitation of Stoker’s brother. But lately, the sexual tension between Veronica and her colleague, Stoker, has become too much! To escape it, Veronica flees. ![]() As anyone familiar with Veronica Speedwell knows, the spirited lepidopterologist only indulges in romantic dalliances when she travels-and only with non-Englishmen. ![]()
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