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To allow so young and delicate a girl to tramp England aimlessly in search of some vague and secret information which seemed to be her erratic father's object, was, we decided, an utter impossibility; therefore, following that night of our first meeting at Helpstone, Burton and his daughter remained our guests for a week, and, after many consultations and some little economies, we were at last successful in placing Mabel at school, a service for which we later received her heartfelt thanks.

Uncover the tantalizing mystery of wealth, deceit, and danger with bachelors Gilbert Greenwood and Reginald Seton. When Greenwood stumbles upon a man and his daughter after a fox hunt, his life takes an unexpected turn as he delves into their quest for a secret capable of unimaginable wealth. The man, Burton Blair, soon amasses his fortune, but dies under suspicious circumstances. His daughter Mabel, Greenwood, and Seton find themselves caught in a web of mystery involving an unknown executor of Blairs will and a cryptic code. Is this code the key to Blairs sudden prosperity? Is Mabel as ...

I'd never told anyone. Not the judge, the jury, or the legal aid barrister who'd written me off before she'd ever met me. But as I drowned in Mateo's affection, in a love I'd done nothing to deserve, the words came tumbling out. Bad words. Dark words. Darker than sin. Darker, even, than Mateo's battered soul and the secrets I didn't know about yet. I thought those words would shatter me. Shatter us. But when the devil came for us, it wasn't mine.