Thirty-year-old Lelia Snyder is devastated when her aunt Tressie dies after a battle with ALS; now shes the last living member of her family, and she feels truly alone. Even so, she manages to find joy in starting her life over, thanks to the generous inheritance Tressie has left her.Life only gets better for Lelia when she meets a blond Adonis named Jason Ferguson. The honeymoon is planned, and everything seems perfectuntil Lelia discovers a shocking truth about Jason. She flees h...

In a historical mystery for Downton Abbey fans, a society reporter covers a killer party in Gilded Age Newport.Newport, Rhode Island, August 1895: She may be a less well-heeled relation, but as second cousin to millionaire patriarch Cornelius Vanderbilt, twenty-one-year-old Emma Cross is on the guest list for a grand ball at the Breakers, the Vanderbilts' summer home. She also has a job to do—report on the event for the society page of the Newport Obse...

With the dawn of the twentieth century on the horizon, the fortunes of the venerable Vanderbilt family still shine brightly in the glittering high society of Newport, Rhode Island. But when a potential scandal strikes, the Vanderbilts turn to cousin and society page reporter Emma Cross to solve a murder and a disappearance . . .Responding to a frantic call on her newfangled telephone from her eighteen-year-old cousin, Consuelo Vanderbilt, Emma Cross arrives at the Marble House mans...

In late nineteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, journalist Emma Cross discovers the newest form oftransportation has become the newest type of murder weapon …On a clear July day in 1899, the salty ocean breeze along Bellevue Avenue carries new smells of gasoline andexhaust as Emma, now editor-in-chief of the Newport Messenger, covers Newport’s first-ever automobile parade. Butthe festive atmosphere soon turns to shock as young Philip King drunkenly swerves hi...