Murder at Almack's

Lady Eliza Framphampton must wed the Duke of Belville or see her family destitute. But the wealthy duke is cruel and vicious. When he returns to London after a sojourn at his ancestral estate to formalize their unspoken betrothal, Eliza is desperate to escape.

But all the *ton* is watching them that night at Almack's, some with more specific notice than others: Derrick Trulington, Eliza's childhood friend, believed dead in the war with France and come now to London incognito to confront the duke. Lady Prysden, a widow pregnant with the duke's bastard child. Eliza's mother, her husband ruined and killed by his noble, distant cousin His Grace the Duke of Belville.

All are watching. Some are plotting. And when a dance-floor waltz becomes a scene of murder, all their lives will change.

Romantic suspense author Sharon Louise turns to Regency England in *Murder at Almack's,* a regency romantic suspense short story. Approximately 7,700 words.