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A Bride for the Dying Marquess. The Winterbourne Deceptions, #1
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- ISBN8235344228
- EAN9798235344228
- Date de parution31/07/2026
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- ÉditeurIoakim Ioakim
Résumé
Honora Ellingford has no illusions about marriage. With her widowed mother drowning in debt and their respectable London life rapidly collapsing, Honora accepts an extraordinary proposal from Raphael Ashcombe, Marquess of Winterbourne. He is wealthy, reclusive-and, according to every physician who has examined him, dying. Their agreement is brutally practical. Honora will become mistress of Winterbourne Hall and provide dignity during Raphael's final months.
In return, his generous settlement will secure her mother's future and leave Honora an independent widow. But nothing at Winterbourne Hall is as helpless as it appears. Raphael's cough vanishes when no one is watching. His meals are exchanged behind closed doors. Mud stains boots belonging to a man supposedly too weak to leave his rooms. And after Honora narrowly survives a sabotaged carriage, her new husband dismisses the incident as chance while secretly conducting an investigation of his own.
Then a guest dies after eating poisoned ginger from a tray Honora carried. Her marriage settlement gives her a motive. Her presence at the tray gives her opportunity. Even the victim's final word seems to implicate someone under her authority. Determined to clear her name, Honora follows a concealed staircase and discovers the truth: Raphael is not dying. His invalidism is an elaborate performance designed to expose the person who murdered his elder brother-and Honora was chosen as his bride partly because her late father's papers make her the enemy's next target.
Furious at being used as bait, Honora refuses to become either Raphael's grateful victim or his obedient accomplice. She demands new terms, independent power, and full access to the investigation. Now husband and wife must reconstruct the journey of a poisoned tray, decipher a mysterious brass seal, and untangle forged trusts, hidden passages, altered records, and competing family ambitions. But the murderer understands Winterbourne's secrets almost as well as they do-and one final deception may destroy both their evidence and their marriage.
A Bride for the Dying Marquess is an atmospheric Victorian mystery romance featuring a marriage of convenience, a dangerously deceptive nobleman, an ambitious heroine, fair-play clues, domestic intrigue, and a partnership forged through rivalry, desire, and hard-won respect.
In return, his generous settlement will secure her mother's future and leave Honora an independent widow. But nothing at Winterbourne Hall is as helpless as it appears. Raphael's cough vanishes when no one is watching. His meals are exchanged behind closed doors. Mud stains boots belonging to a man supposedly too weak to leave his rooms. And after Honora narrowly survives a sabotaged carriage, her new husband dismisses the incident as chance while secretly conducting an investigation of his own.
Then a guest dies after eating poisoned ginger from a tray Honora carried. Her marriage settlement gives her a motive. Her presence at the tray gives her opportunity. Even the victim's final word seems to implicate someone under her authority. Determined to clear her name, Honora follows a concealed staircase and discovers the truth: Raphael is not dying. His invalidism is an elaborate performance designed to expose the person who murdered his elder brother-and Honora was chosen as his bride partly because her late father's papers make her the enemy's next target.
Furious at being used as bait, Honora refuses to become either Raphael's grateful victim or his obedient accomplice. She demands new terms, independent power, and full access to the investigation. Now husband and wife must reconstruct the journey of a poisoned tray, decipher a mysterious brass seal, and untangle forged trusts, hidden passages, altered records, and competing family ambitions. But the murderer understands Winterbourne's secrets almost as well as they do-and one final deception may destroy both their evidence and their marriage.
A Bride for the Dying Marquess is an atmospheric Victorian mystery romance featuring a marriage of convenience, a dangerously deceptive nobleman, an ambitious heroine, fair-play clues, domestic intrigue, and a partnership forged through rivalry, desire, and hard-won respect.
