I wanted to do more than that, but with our maid and valet seated across from us, that would have been highly inappropriate. I reached out to touch Gage's hand where it gripped his leg, hoping to offer him a bit of reassurance. But to see my normally unflappable husband so apprehensive unsettled me. It's never easy to confront the demons of our past. After all, if I were about to enter my first husband, Sir Anthony Darby's, London town house-that place of so many unhappy remembrances-I wouldn't have been so sanguine. Sebastian Gage had conducted dozens of precarious inquiries, had faced down Turkish warriors in the Greek War of Independence, and had most recently been winged by a bullet fired by a temperamental Irish housemaid during our last inquiry only a week before, but this place somehow still troubled him. They were written in the tautness of his brow and the deep pools of his eyes as he stared up at the stone manor through our hired carriage's window. Memories I could see weighing on him now. In truth, it appeared downright foreboding, even without the painful memories that plagued Gage. But even on a bright, sunlit day, I struggled to imagine the house being more inviting. Heavy gray clouds filled the sky, releasing sheets of rain that obscured the horizon, all but concealing my view of the infamous moors rising to the east. I'm sure it didn't help that the weather was far from hospitable. The first time I laid eyes on Langstone Manor, I could not blame my husband for having stayed away for over fifteen years. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. Now, they must face the ghosts of Gage's past, discover the truth behind the local superstitions, and see beyond the tricks being played by their very own eyes to expose what has happened to Gage's family before the moors claim yet another victim. And when Alfred's brother Rory goes missing, Kiera and Gage must concede he may be right. The Viscount is convinced someone or something other than the natural hazards of the moors is to blame for Alfred's disappearance. He wandered out into the moors and never returned. Gage's grandfather, the Viscount Tavistock, is gravely ill, and Gage's cousin Alfred has suddenly vanished. But when an urgent letter from his grandfather reaches them in Dublin, Ireland, and begs Gage to visit, Kiera convinces him to go.Īll is not well at Langstone Manor. Though he has shared little with his wife, Lady Kiera Darby, about his past, she knows that he planned never to return to the place of so many unhappy childhood memories. It's been fifteen years since Sebastian Gage has set foot in Langstone Manor. Sebastian Gage returns home to battle the ghosts of his past and prevent them from destroying his future with Kiera in the latest exciting installment in this national bestselling series.
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