When the ghostly Gray Lady walks, a lover dies. Can Elinor stop destiny?
The young Coralie Floquet desires to marry but the spectral appearance of a Gray Lady portends that her end might be soon. Called in to help by Tristan Fontain, the Duke de Archambeau, Elinor plans to chase spirits and rumors at a country estate in a seaside town.
But as soon as she arrives, ill-will seems to swirl around her, along with tittle-tattle about her relationship with Tristan that has gossips talking. Though Elinor doesn’t care much about stolen government documents, her heart might be lost when the duke finally reveals the truth about his past and why he took Elinor home when he first met her.
Elinor has not completely recovered from her time in the Beyond and the drug Parnell used to facilitate her sojourn there leaving her in poor health and to compound her troubles there have been at least two attempts to murder her. So when the Duke arranges for her to travel to the seaside and investigate the Gray Lady Elinor accepts. But what starts as a holiday with a little ghost hunting becomes much more dangerous as accusations of treason swirl and there is a murder.
I have raced through the first four books in this series and vastly regret that book five will not be available to read until late June. While each entry in the series has a focus that is solved each also builds well upon the previous and leaves the reader eager to learn more about the various other plots that weave throughout the series. Suspicions are growing in my mind about who the master criminal is who is involved in both the treasonous plotting against the King as well as who murdered Elinor’s father. The romance between Elinor and the Duke is heating up and the reader is left to guess whether it will end with marriage or an affair. Highly recommended ~~ Stephanie L Bannon
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