One Enchanted Evening by Ruth Ann Nordin

Author:Ruth Ann Nordin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: love, suspense, sex, historical romance, cinderella, masquerade, secret identity, virgin heroine, virgin hero
Publisher: Ruth Ann Nordin

Marcy was thirteen when her mother died. She mourned her mother’s death every day. Her father had, too, but then he had decided that Marcy needed another mother. So a year after her mother died, he married Pandora’s mother. “This will be good for you,” her father had told Marcy. “Every girl needs a mother.”

Shortly after the wedding, he went on with his new life, doting on his new wife and daughter. Pandora was three years older than Marcy, so her father seemed to forget all about her and focused on getting Pandora ready for receiving visitors. Though they were in the country, he had sent invitations to gentlemen he was acquainted with in London who had sons of marriageable age.

Marcy didn’t know how the rest of the world could move on while hers had fallen apart. She didn’t know if her father loved Pandora’s mother. In her state of mind, she hadn’t cared. She missed her mother, and it seemed to her that no one else did.

Then her father died. A year after his marriage to Pandora’s mother, he died while asleep. He hadn’t been sick. He’d been just fine. Marcy’s mother had been sick for almost a month before she passed on. But there had been no such warning to prepare her for losing her father.

And that made Marcy suspect foul play. She watched her step-mother and step-sister carefully, looking for any clues that might tell her who’d had a hand in his death. Pandora had just secured the betrothal of the Duke of Philton. The upcoming marriage was all Pandora talked about. Marcy doubted Pandora thought of anything else. So Marcy turned her attention to her step-mother.

And one day, while Marcy was crying over the loss of her mother and father, she slipped into her step-mother’s den. Pandora had asked her mother to take a walk with her. Pandora hadn’t asked Marcy to come along, but then, she never did.

But, this time, Marcy was glad for it since it meant she had a chance to go into the den. Her father had only been dead for two weeks. Which meant the wounds were still new…still fresh. And Marcy was desperate to find something—anything—that would tell her exactly how her father died.

So she took the opportunity to slip into the den while no one was looking. Right there, on top of the desk, was her father’s will. It was a new will he’d drawn up after her mother’s death. Her father had drawn up a new will that stated after the estate was handed to his nephew, half of his money would go to Marcy and the other half would go to Marcy’s step-mother.

She wiped more tears from her eyes with her handkerchief and sorted through the drawers. And that was when she found it. Her answer. The will was the motive. The cause of death was in the small bottle her step-mother had hidden in the top drawer of the desk. Poison.

To make sure she was seeing

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