Lady Helena Investigates

Author : Jane Steen
Publisher : Aspidistra Press
ISBN 13 : 0995748438
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Helena Investigates written by Jane Steen and published by Aspidistra Press. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reluctant lady sleuth finds she's investigating her own family. 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. 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? Every family has its secrets. The Scott-De Quincy family has more than most.

Author : Jane Steen
Publisher : Aspidistra Press
ISBN 13 : 0985715014
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House of Closed Doors written by Jane Steen and published by Aspidistra Press. This book was released on 2012-10-08 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heedless. Stubborn. Disgraced. Small town Illinois, 1870: "My stepfather was not particularly fond of me to begin with, and now that he'd found out about the baby, he was foaming at the mouth" Desperate to avoid marriage, Nell Lillington refuses to divulge the name of her child's father and accepts her stepfather's decision that the baby be born at a Poor Farm and discreetly adopted. Until an unused padded cell is opened and two small bodies fall out. Nell is the only resident of the Poor Farm who is convinced the unwed mother and her baby were murdered, and rethinks her decision to abandon her own child to fate. But even if she manages to escape the Poor Farm with her baby she may have no safe place to run to.

Author : Jane Steen
Publisher : Scott-De Quincy Mysteries
ISBN 13 : 9781913810238
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Helena Investigates written by Jane Steen and published by Scott-De Quincy Mysteries. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reluctant lady sleuth finds she's investigating her own family. 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. 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? Every family has its secrets. The Scott-De Quincy family has more than most.

Author : Jane Steen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781913810047
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eternal Deception written by Jane Steen and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-15 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW BEGINNING THREATENS TO END IN DISASTER The Kansas plains offer Nell a chance to support her small family and bring Sarah up away from the prying eyes that might discover her illegitimate birth. But when her only ally among the seminary's leaders dies, Nell finds herself at the mercy of people she doesn't entirely trust-and she's not in a position to escape. As her talent as a dressmaker improves her fortunes, Nell attracts the attention of two suitors and struggles with the problem of reconciling love, independence, and respectability for her daughter's sake. Shocking news from back home and another death at the seminary force a decision. A disastrous winter journey, a treacherous game, and an impossible love could wrest control of Nell's life out of her hands for good.

Author : Jane Steen
Publisher : Aspidistra Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unforgotten written by Jane Steen and published by Aspidistra Press. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fog that rolled in off Lake Michigan that November morning was not an unusual phenomenon. But when Peter finished buttoning his coat to ward off the chill, he realized he was no longer alone in the lakeside cemetery. Was his past catching up with him? This short (17 pages) tale of a Victorian haunting will delight readers of classic ghost stories.

Author : Jane Steen
Publisher : Aspidistra Press
ISBN 13 : 1913810186
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Odelia's Secret written by Jane Steen and published by Aspidistra Press. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever really know your family? In the 1880s a sixth daughter learns not to ask for much, even if she’s the daughter of an earl. Even if she married the richest man in her corner of Sussex. Even if she’s now a widow with a splendid Georgian mansion. Lady Helena Whitcombe is still trying to adjust to widowhood and reconcile her family loyalties with her desires when her artist sister Odelia makes a startling suggestion. Why not make her mark on the house that’s now all hers, by commissioning a magnificent work of art from one of London’s most celebrated painters? Lady Odelia invites Helena into the seductive world of medieval fantasies and fairy tales she has inhabited since Helena was a child. But when a shocking series of events exposes the destructive reality of a great artist’s unusual lifestyle, Helena and her lady’s maid Guttridge are called on to help—or is it to interfere? Looming danger, the risk of scandal, and competing loyalties force Helena to re-evaluate her relationship with the sister she’s always loved the most. What is Lady Odelia’s secret? Find out in this gripping continuation of the Scott-De Quincy Mysteries, a story that blends mystery and historical detail with Downton Abbey-style saga as the truths about Helena’s aristocratic family unfold. Read it now before the secret gets out!

Author : Jane Steen
Publisher : Aspidistra Press
ISBN 13 : 1913810240
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lady Ambition's Dilemma written by Jane Steen and published by Aspidistra Press. This book was released on 2024-03-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dynasty is at stake. It seemed like a straightforward request–and Helena is used to her sister Blanche making demands on her time and fortune. But the most ambitious of her sisters reveals a dilemma that may wipe out the title she holds. When tragedy strikes, Helena must reprise her role as the Investigating Lady to save a nephew she doesn’t even like. And what about her own future? The return of a hero from the past awakens old emotions and suggests new possibilities, while the revelation of the full extent of Armand Fortier’s family secret poses a challenge Fortier himself thinks insurmountable. Where will Cupid’s arrows land? Join Helena as she contends with a potential scandal that’s even bigger than the last one, gains new allies and an enemy with a most convincing argument, and learns a secret that may change the course of history.

Author : Jane Steen
Publisher : Aspidistra Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bars of the Marshalsea written by Jane Steen and published by Aspidistra Press. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a Victorian Haunting short story (23 pages). The ghost of Charles Dickens is restless. Eternity is so long, and the world has changed in ways he finds hard to accept. His thoughts take him to his first real home on Doughty Street in London, where he encounters another spirit—a small boy with the unmistakable stamp of poverty upon him. A boy from his own time, and one who has clearly claimed the right to haunt the home where Dickens knew the first taste of success. But why? The answer to Dickens’ question is in the attic, and will confront the shade of one of the best-loved authors in the English language with a secret he’s kept all his life

Author : Jane Steen
Publisher : Aspidistra Press
ISBN 13 : 1913810062
Total Pages : 1092 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nell's Story written by Jane Steen and published by Aspidistra Press. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the American Midwest of the 1870s, this three-novel story blends mystery, romance, history, and family drama in over 30 hours of entertaining, fast-paced reading. See why readers rave about the writing, the plot twists, and the characters. NELL LILLINGTON is a spoiled, headstrong 16-year-old when she finds herself pregnant after letting a flirtation with handsome Cousin Jack get out of hand. More willing to bear the consequences of an illegitimate pregnancy than marry, she refuses to name the father and agrees to give birth in a Poor Farm and give the baby up for adoption. At the Poor Farm she meets Tess O’Dugan, a woman the world calls an imbecile but who soon becomes the sister Nell never had. MARTIN RUTHERFORD, Nell’s childhood friend, only learns of baby Sarah when Nell seeks to escape from the Poor Farm—with the child. His own aversion to marriage stems from his dark, unhappy childhood, and despite his attachment to Nell he makes no objection to her plan to move to Kansas, away from prying eyes, with Tess and Sarah. Martin, now free of family ties, has his own plans—he wishes to build a grand department store in Chicago and become one of that growing city’s merchant princes. But Nell and Martin’s plans are steered off course by the secrets and lies of other people, and their paths to happiness are strewn with murder. Nell’s story will take you from the Illinois prairie, to frontier Kansas, and back to a Chicago teeming with opportunistic new Americans and ruthless hardmen.

Author : Jane Steen
Publisher : Aspidistra Press
ISBN 13 : 0985715065
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eternal Deception written by Jane Steen and published by Aspidistra Press. This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love or independence? Few choices remain for Nell and her new family on the Kansas frontier… Kansas, 1872. Unwed mother Nell Lillington hopes to support her daughter Sarah and friend Tess by working as a seamstress in an isolated seminary. When her only ally among the seminary's leaders dies, she must choose between returning to her old life in Chicago and remaining in charge of her destiny. As her talent as a dressmaker begins to win her commissions, Nell attracts the attention of two suitors: Reiner Lehmann, a wealthy senior student, and Judah Poulton, an impoverished professor. Shocking news from back home and another death at the seminary press Nell to make her decision. A disastrous winter journey, a treacherous game, and an impossible love could finally wrest control of Nell's life out of her hands for good. Eternal Deception is the second book in a series of engrossing historical fiction novels. If you like intriguing mystery, charming romance, and surprises you won't see coming, you'll love this story of one woman's battle for herself on the nineteenth century frontier. Buy Eternal Deception to continue Nell's incredible journey today!