Chapter 1

Lady Wortham calls me the Widow of Winslow and Peak.

Never to my face, only in hushed tones, and always with conspiring eyes peering over the rim of a pretty lace fan.

"I heard she killed Mr. Winslow on their wedding night."

To her credit, this is partially true.

Mr. Thomas Winslow was, indeed, my first husband, and the poor man did, indeed, die on our wedding night.