A Fatal Rendezvous in Mayfair

A vanished banker. A desperate woman playing the spirits. A deadly game of deception.

After two agonising years imprisoned in a foreign asylum by her cruel husband, Lily, Lady Bradden, is dragged back to London by a ruthless charlatan.

Her only hope of survival is to assume a false identity.

Veiled and enigmatic, Lily becomes "Mrs Eustace," a fashionable spirit medium who claims to summon the dead for grieving aristocrats. But when she is ordered to contact the ghost of a wealthy banker who has vanished without a trace, her dangerous masquerade draws her into a web of Mayfair brothels, Russian espionage and murder.

Hamish McTavish, the uncompromising editor of Manners & Morals, has built his reputation exposing frauds and charlatans. The mysterious new clairvoyant should be his next sensational target.

But Hamish has seen Lily before.

He recognises her as the captivating woman he encountered at Madame Chambon's notorious pleasure house, and the more determined he becomes to uncover her secrets, the harder it is to resist the forbidden attraction growing between them.

Then one of Madame Chambon's most sought-after courtesans is brutally murdered.

With a ruthless Russian diplomat closing in and Lily's vengeful husband threatening to discover that she is still alive, Lily and Hamish must join forces to expose a killer. Yet in a world built on lies, trusting one another may prove the deadliest gamble of all.

A Fatal Rendezvous in Mayfair is the first book in the complete London Ladies in Peril trilogy. Each atmospheric Victorian Gothic romance mystery features a complete central romance and murder investigation, with familiar characters and continuing threads connecting the series.