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jacey
A Regency romance mystery with Gothic overtones. Charity Halliwell arrives at Loxby Manor after five years in India. She intends to stay for a year while her parents are in the Americas. It's the home of her childhood friends, and yet… Seline Cavanaugh goes missing on her first night and everyone but Charity believes she's eloped with the stable boy. Piers, Seline's brother with whom Charity was once in love, and still might be, is the only one who understands her fears. They work together to figure out the scant clues, but Piers is mired in accusations of cowardice. There is certainly something secretive going on which might involve their best friends. A nice combination of romance and peril, though at times the action moves with glacial slowness as weeks go by in the plot-line, if not in the narrative. Eventually all is revealed, of course, but you'll have to read the book. I'm not giving away spoilers.
