1895 Newport, Rhode Island. The height of the Gilded Age. Fortunes are made and lost overnight. In boardrooms and ballrooms, competition for superiority is ruthless and so are the players. Deanna Randolph is looking forward to her first Newport season, beginning with a ball to introduce Lord David Manchester, Barbadian sugar owner, and his sister to Newport society. Joe Ballard is looking forward to the season but for different reasons. It will give him an opportunity to find and expose the person who is siphoning funds from the Randolph sugar refinery. He just hopes it isn't one of the Randolphs. The Manchesters are an immediate hit and so is Lord David's manservant, Swan, a Barbadian native who performs magic, reads fortunes and predicts the future. It's all in good fun until the body of a young maid is found on the nearby cliffs, her neck broken, and Joe kneeling over the body. Deanna's maid, Elspeth was friends with the girl, Daisy, who was engaged to her brother Owen. She begs... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге GILDED GRAVE (FREYDONT, SHELLEY)