Bøger af Lindsay Downs

At 12:30pm on November 22, 1963 three gunshots rang out in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas killing the President of the United States and seriously wounding the governor of Texas. By late afternoon the police had Lee Harvey Oswald in custody.Twenty years later Professor Richard Dean, Jr was in the receipt of a package sent by Walter Johnson. Inside was a shirt matching the same one Oswald had worn.While searching out the truth Richard, Jr and his wife find out the assassination was a conspiracy instigated by an international secretive society.Even though there were several naysayers the attempts on Richard Jr., and others, lives helped convince the cynics what Walter Johnson was saying was the truth.Richard Jr. learns Walter has a twin the a question is raised, is he here to help or kill his brother?Once everything is settled Richard Jr. helps Walter start over with a new life.

The past has come back to haunt Lord Mathew and Lady Jessica. Even with extra precautions to keep them both safe from someone who was supposed to be dead their plans quickly change. With family and friends, their retire to the Winsome estate to await the countess's annual Valentine Eve Ball. What Lord Matthew doesn't realize, this excursion will be rather costly for him as Lady Jessica insists on a proper gown for the ball. While she and the other ladies shop Lord Matthew and Lord Justin, the newest peer, search out where the person could be hiding. What they find is even more disturbing-a body. Immediately Lord Matthew knows who murdered the old man. Another individual who shouldn't be living as he and Lady Jessica watched her die. After passing this information on to their friends the men set about to hunt these people down. Will the persons be found in time so Lord Matthew and Lady Jessica can marry without worry?

Justin, Earl of Rosewood, has a problem. He has affections for three ladies. To help him decide which to wed several friends, former rogues, and their wives suggested he have a house party. Then, Lady Prudence arrives. Almost immediately Justin realizes she could be the one. As the party, over several days, progresses Justin devotes almost all his time to the lady. The three ladies who Justin thought had feelings for him try to make Prudence unhappy to the point where one is sent packing. When the body of Lady Anna is in the maze almost all of the guests save Prudence, her newest friend Ida and the rakehells and their wives attempt to solve the mystery of who killed Lady Anna. Suspects are rule out. How the body got into the maze was studied but to no success. Questions remained. Answers are never found. Or are they?

When Nash, Marquis of Renfield, learns of a plot to make his love, Lady Amelia, marry someone else he marshals his friends, their wives along with both sets of parents and retreat to the Fenwick ducal estate. Everyone starts planning for a Christmas Eve ball until things go awry, in the name Smedley, allegedly the only son of the Earl and Countess of Rosewood. At first it was thought Rosewood, supposedly in the dun, was after Amelia's dowry. It turned out the earl and countess were seeking more. Power. Great power which could bring England to its knees. When Nash is kidnapped it falls on Amelia and their friends to rescue him. With the assistance of Justin, Nash's groom, they devise a plan to save him from certain death. Once back at the ducal palace Nash keeps his word to Amelia just as the ball starts. The duke and duchess are also hiding a secret from everyone in regards to the Rosewood earldom.

A mysterious lady. A secret well-kept. A foiled abduction. These and other events get Anthony, Earl of Wyatt, to start wondering who this Lady Chelsea truly is. All he does know, she's not the love from his childhood as that Chelsea had drowned ten years ago. His mother, Lady Rosalind, invites her and Lady Iris, her mother, to visit their estate to participate in a house party. Once there things slowly start to make sense, or so Lord Anthony believes. What none of them realize, everything isn't as it seems. Bit by bit the secret is revealed. Even before everything is laid out Lord Anthony knows he's found his long lost, thought dead love, in the form of Lady Chelsea. By a stroke of fortune for them, misfortune for someone else she is finally able to recall the events of that dreadful day years ago. The only question which remains, is Lord Anthony able to keep Lady Chelsea safe until they wed or will other events prevent it.

Matthew, Viscount Rathbourne, is dispatched to Cornwall to design a gazebo for his uncle. There, little does he realize how his life will change. Caught poaching ducal trout he meets Lady Kathleen. What has him wondering, why is she hiding out here and not in London searching out a husband. Not that he wished to complain as he found her not only beautiful but his intellectual equal. After two bodies turn up Matthew quickly learns Kathleen is stronger than any young lady of the ton he'd ever met. As the mystery of who the murdered victims are is uncovered Matthew learns of a hidden, albeit interesting, fact about Kathleen. Should he allow her to continue with these late night excursions or put a halt to them? When all the truths come out Matthew and Kathleen, now married are happy at who helped bring the murderers to justice.