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Instead, we had found ourselves employed by the Earl of Rosemorran to catalog his family’s extensive collections-interesting and modestly profitable work that stunted the soul if endured for too long.

As natural historians, we had balked at our enforced stay in London, each of us longing for the open seas, skies that stretched to forever, horizons that beckoned us with spice-scented winds. It was very easy to look down on someone with a nose that would have done a Roman emperor justice.

I blamed his aris­tocratic upbringing for that. Instead, he had adopted an attitude of Arctic hauteur. I had dreaded telling Stoker of my plans, ex­pecting some sort of mild explosion at the notion that I had at last se­cured an expedition, however minor, to which he was not invited. There I will leave the train and get onto a boat, and when it stops at Madeira, I will have arrived.” My tone was frankly waspish. When I have packed, I will leave this place and board a train for the coast. It was a weightier volume than one might expect, featuring an appendix devoted to the butterflies of Madeira and certain flamboy­ant moths found only in the Azores. He surveyed the half-packed carpetbag on my bed as I folded in a spare shirtwaist and Magalhães’s Guide to Portuguese Lepidoptery. “What the devil do you mean you’re leaving?” Stoker demanded. Now those who were closest to her have gathered, each a possible suspect in her disappearance.įrom the poison garden kept by Malcolm’s sister to the high towers of the family castle, the island’s atmosphere is full of shadows, and danger lurks around every corner.ĭetermined to discover Rosamund’s fate, Veronica and Stoker match wits with a murderer who has already struck once and will not hesitate to kill again.… Lured by the promise of a rare and elusive butterfly, the intrepid Veronica Speedwell is persuaded by Lord Templeton-Vane, the brother of her colleague Stoker, to pose as his fiancée at a house party on a Cornish isle owned by his oldest friend, Malcolm Romilly.īut Veronica soon learns that one question hangs over the party: What happened to Rosamund? Three years ago, Malcolm Romilly’s bride vanished on their wedding day, and no trace of her has ever been found. A bride mysteriously disappears on her wedding day in the newest Veronica Speedwell adventure by the New York Times bestselling author of the Lady Julia Grey series.