Penelope Hammond finds herself a widow at the age of twenty-three, having been married five years to a man she barely knew. Her husband, David Hammond, Lord Hampstead, was a member of the House of Lords who rarely said more than a few words to her in a week’s time--and often did not come home at night. But Lord Hampstead was from a wealthy, powerful London family with no enemies, so why was he murdered? Penelope is a penniless widow with few friends and only her cold grandmother to lean on.
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