The Governess Who Vanished

Miss Catherine Lorne vanished from Marchmont Hall on a Thursday afternoon, taking nothing but a small bag and the family's secrets. Two months later her sister Anne walks into the same nursery, into the same silent house, and into the same wall of polite, immovable lies. Only Colonel Edmund Marchmont seems to want the truth — and he is the one person who will not speak it, because he loved Catherine, and she refused him the day before she disappeared. As Anne uncovers a hidden ledger, a dead tenant and a payment of eighty pounds, she and Edmund are drawn into a search that will take them out of Yorkshire and force the Earl of Marchmont to face what he did. A Regency romance of secrets, sisters, and the quiet courage it takes to say what everyone has agreed not to.