Decorum and Scandal
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Last published Mon, Mar 13, 2023
It had been a year since Evelyn had been exiled to her uncle's country cottage, a year since her devoted cousin Isabella insisted upon joining her. Now suddenly the very same uncle calls both girls to London. There they find that the strange deaths of Evelyn's parents may have been stranger than either girl was aware of, and that the tragedies of their family is doomed to continue unless the cousins can solve the mystery of that fatal dinner five years previous.
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