This series transports readers to the world of decaying stately homes and the complex lives of their inhabitants. Follow characters as they navigate secrets, crumbling marriages, and hidden pasts within aristocratic families. Each installment promises a compelling journey into mysteries unearthed within grand, yet troubled, ancestral estates, offering a blend of suspense and social drama.
Accompanying American heiress Belle Seldon on a visit to her ancestral family home in Somerset, Ursula Grandison soon discovers that the decaying stately Mountstanton House and its inhabitants has many secrets, including a crumbling marriage and a missing dowry.
As she struggles to make a living in a society where women have few rights and little freedom, she teams up with old friend and private investigator Thomas Jackman, who soon finds himself drawing on Ursula's investigative abilities as they battle to save an innocent woman from the noose.