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Natalie Shaw has been healing from a troubling marriage for the two years she and her daughter, Annalise have lived with her sister, Dr. Rayne Smith and her husband, Lord Edwin Sterling. Working as her sister's nursing assistant has given her a purpose in life, and while she would not say she was happy, she was certainly content. Lord Alex St. John has been pushed by his mother for years to find a wife. He had been betrothed and due to actions on the young lady's part, they went their separate ways. Now he must attend his cousin's five day wedding celebration and knows he will be harassed by all the female members of his family, with numerous women dragged before him.. Lord Sterling suggests to Alex that he take Natalie as a 'pretend' fiancée to ward off all the trouble he is about to face. Natalie agrees since life has become repetitive and she is ready for some fun. It looks like it might all work out except Alex's former fiancée, Miss Mildred Walsh has arrived for the wedding, determined to win Alex back. Not only does he have no intention of doing so, he is beginning to think his 'fake' fiancée might be perfect as his 'real' fiancée. But would Natalie agree? And then there is the desperate maneuvering Mildred is doing since not winning Alex back is not an option.

In USA Today bestselling author Callie Hutton''s third Victorian Book Club mystery, will wedding bells or death knells ring for Lady Amy and Lord William?Bath, England, 1892. Celebrated mystery author Lady Amy Lovell is set to tie the knot with Lord William Wethington, a fellow member of the Mystery Book Club of Bath. Amy''s great-aunt, Lady Priscilla Granville, has offered to host their wedding at her stately Derby Manor House. But on the eve of the ceremony, the festive air in the drawing room is marred by Mrs. Alice Finch''s argument with her husband, Albert, in another room. The next morning at the wedding breakfast, Alice falls face-first into her breakfast—dead. When Amy and William''s favorite detectives are summoned to the house, they see two champagne glasses in front of Mrs. Finch and none in front of her husband. Did Albert give his wife a poisoned drink? Always looking for the easiest solution, the detectives charge Albert with the murder. But Lady Amy is not convinced that Albert is guilty. There are too many things that don''t add up. In the hopes of being able to leave Bath and begin their honeymoon, Amy and William once again take things into their own hands.  Suspects begin to pop up, but nothing takes them more by surprise than the discovery of a second body.   Stuck in Bath until the whole poisonous predicament is solved, Amy and William are anxious to collar the perfidious poisoner and be on their way to their honeymoon. If they can''t catch the killer, not only is their newlywed bliss under threat, but they may not live to see happily-ever-after at all.