An Impertinent Heiress: An Historical Mystery - Paperback
An Impertinent Heiress: An Historical Mystery - Paperback
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by Sarah F. Noel (Author)
From the author of the Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mysteries
An impertinent heiress. An invitation to a marquess's house party. A death that turns every eye towards her.
London, 1899. American heiress Isabella Hartwell has crossed the Atlantic for reasons that have nothing to do with a titled husband. Society may assume she has come to buy herself a coronet, yet Isabella wants something far more dangerous than a husband. She wants adventure.
Her beauty and fortune make her quite the prize, and eligible aristocrats line up to offer her their names, estates, and very little excitement. Isabella entertains their courtship with a sharp smile and a sharper tongue, and manages to avoid any entanglements. Until one persistent young lord collapses at a house party on a country estate, moments after a heated quarrel with her, and never rises again. Immediately, tongues begin to wag, and suspicion falls squarely on Isabella.
Refusing to be packed off to New York in disgrace, Isabella decides to investigate the death herself. With the eager assistance of her septuagenarian friend, the Dowager Countess of Pembroke, she begins to unravel a web of lies and rivalries that lead the pair in a most unexpected direction.
Sparkling, sly and full of intrigue, An Impertinent Heiress introduces Isabella Hartwell, a heroine who has no intention of letting polite society dictate her fate in this new historical mystery.
