[A Lady Fan Mystery 06] • The Fateful Marriage

**A brand new mystery featuring Lady Fan! For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Barbara Erskine and Jane Austen.

*Wherever Lady Fan goes, murder follows…* **

**1791, England**

Lady Ottilia and Lord Francis Fanshawe are holidaying in Tunbridge Wells when they stumble across the scene of a horrific accident.

While visiting the High Rocks, a local tourist spot, a young woman falls to her death from the top of the climb.

It soon becomes clear that the woman is linked to the infamous Dowager Viscountess Lady Wem – an indomitable matriarch visiting Tunbridge with her extended family.

The young woman was at the centre of a scandal – Lady Wem’s grandson, Daniel, eloped with her three years prior.

As Lady Fan is introduced to the family her suspicions are aroused.

**Was the fall a devastating mishap? Or could the woman have been pushed?**

Lady Fan must unravel dark family secrets in her quest for the truth…

**THE FATEFUL MARRIAGE is the sixth book in the Lady Fan Mystery series: historical romance murder mysteries with a courageous women sleuth embarking on a traditional British, private investigation in eighteenth-century London.**

‘The late Regency writer Georgette Heyer lives—and she's writing mysteries as Elizabeth Bailey!’ - ***Meritorious Mysteries***

‘Ottilia is a strong, intelligent character with a real enthusiasm for detective work’ – **She Reads Novels**

‘They have everything you love in romances, plus continuing characters you can really come to love, and murders as well! Her heroine sleuth, **Ottilia, is a fantastic character.’ - Historical Romance UK**

**LADY FAN HISTORICAL MYSTERY SERIES**

BOOK ONE: The Gilded Shroud

BOOK TWO: The Deathly Portent

BOOK THREE: The Opium Purge

BOOK FOUR: The Candlelit Coffin

BOOK FIVE: The Mortal Blow

**BOOK SIX: The Fateful Marriage** ****