The grand Allworth Abbey casts its shadow over a family living in dangerous contentment. When Lord Leaton's brother dies mysteriously in India, his niece Eudora arrives as heiress-presumptive, and the deaths begin. Agatha's health fails with terrifying speed, whispers of poison poison the air, and suspicion settles like fog around the beautiful newcomer. Is Eudora a calculating killer who would murder her own blood for inheritance, or an innocent scapegoat whose arrival has merely awakened buried secrets in these ancient walls? Southworth weaves together romance, betrayal, and Gothic atmosphere in this deliciously dark tale of family, inheritance, and the deadly shadows that lurk behind aristocratic doors. For readers who crave Victorian mysteries with sharp psychological edges.
