A Very Proper Murder: a Steamy Regency Romance Murder Mystery

The viscount comes home to a house that has learned to hide its dead. Freshly scarred from war, Nat Ashcombe throws Wrenleigh Court open to village and gentry, determined to turn a ruin of debt and rumor into something clean. The garlands shine. The wine flows. Only the crooked door at the end of the east wing refuses to behave.Eliza Fairburn, inconveniently tall librarian and owner of the only circulating library within twenty miles, knows better than to trust a polished surface. She sees the old stain beneath the new scrub, the footprints where no one ought to walk, the ledgers with pages carved out around a missing man. When a guest is found sprawled on that faded carpet, throat full of secrets, the magistrate locks every suspect inside Wrenleigh, and Nat’s reformed respectability becomes the most compelling motive in the house.Eliza can walk away, keep her name, and let the great families gut one another in private. Or she can become Nat’s only honest ally, reading his ancestral crime scene line by line, knowing every proof she uncovers can hang him, ruin her, or bind them in something far less reversible than scandal.The snow is falling, the keys have changed hands, the killer is still inside Wrenleigh Court, and the next stain the carpets will not surrender is not yet on the floor.