* 1912 *
Henrietta Dexter wasn’t devastated over her broken engagement but she was unsure of what to do next. That changes when her handsome, lawyer cousin, Ralf Dexter offers to get her away from the gossip and drama of Maybrook. She agrees to go back with him to Washington D.C. and finds herself learning much about herself and the world around her. The first new influx of knowledge is that handsome, cousin Ralf... is not really her cousin! While shouldering a new attraction for the man she thought was family, she learns her privileged upbringing has made her into someone she does not like. During her stay, Henrietta ends up preoccupied with a murder case of Ralf’s, surrounding a local Jewelry shop. She’s a long way from her little town of Maybrook and that distance is giving her the courage to break society’s rules, romantic limits, and even test family honor when her budding love for one man challenges everything. Finding her passion and her true self may be Henrietta’s greatest adventure yet, in the Nation’s Capital. **The Maybrook Trilogy is better to be read in sequence. This book does contain some violence and mature sexual content best suited for ages 18 years and up.