The Dark Enquiry

Partners now in
marriage and in trade, Lady Julia and Nicholas Brisbane have finally
returned from abroad to set up housekeeping in London. But merging their
respective collections of gadgets, pets and servants leaves little room
for the harried newlyweds themselves, let alone Brisbane’s private
enquiry business.

Among the more unlikely clients: Julia’s very
proper brother, Lord Bellmont, who swears Brisbane to secrecy about his
case. Not about to be left out of anything concerning her beloved—if
eccentric—family, spirited Julia soon picks up the trail of the
investigation.

It leads to the exclusive Ghost Club, where the
alluring Madame Séraphine holds evening séances…and not a few powerful
gentlemen in thrall. From this eerie enclave unfolds a lurid tangle of
dark deeds, whose tendrils crush reputations and throttle trust.

Shocked
to find their investigation spun into salacious newspaper headlines,
bristling at the tension it causes between them, the Brisbanes find they
must unite or fall. For Bellmont’s sake—and more—they’ll face myriad
dangers born of dark secrets, the kind men kill to keep….