Shorts

A widowed mother learns about her late son's secret romance; Emma Woodhouse and Harriet Smith contemplate the example of the Ladies of Llangollen; the arrival of 'proper' theatrical costumes causes a stir at a prisoner-of-war camp; a lowly clerical officer has a magical encounter with an unknown man; a foreign visitor falls under the spell of a wayward prince; a grumpy copper investigates the murder of an unpopular celebrity… These six short stories, originally written for four themed anthologies between 2015 and 2018, are collected together here for the first time.