Still stranded in 1815, FBI agent Kendra Donovan finds herself on the
trail of a vicious murderer with a shocking secret.
October 1815: There is only one place Kendra Donovan wants to
travel--back to her own time period in the twenty-first century. But
since that's not happening, she agrees instead to travel with her new
guardian, the Duke of Aldridge, to one of his smaller estates in
Lancashire. Their journey takes them through Yorkshire, a region whose
breathtaking beauty masks a simmering violence brought on by the
Industrial Revolution, which pits mill owner against worker.
When Kendra and the Duke encounter a band of Luddites on a lonely,
fog-shrouded road, the Duke informs the authorities in the nearby
village of East Dingleford that mischief may have been done at the local
mill. However, it isn't just mischief but murder that is discovered,
when the body of the mill manager, Mr. Stone, is found brutally
bludgeoned to death in his office.
The Constable is certain the radical-minded Luddites committed the
murder. One look at the crime scene and Kendra knows they did not,
prompting the Duke to shock the locals by volunteering their services to
catch the real killer. Joined by lover Alec and Bow Street Runner Sam
Kelly, Kendra must sort through the puzzle of Stone's rather unsavory
life, picking apart alibies and dissecting carefully created deceptions
from a growing list of suspects.
As a special agent for the FBI, Kendra thought she'd encountered every
kind of evil. But when another, even more vicious murder rocks East
Dingleford, Kendra realizes that they're dealing with a stone-cold
killer--one who has a shocking secret that he will do anything to
protect.
