Mikelle Fraizer's formula of a dark hero feeling lust, if not love, for the new lady in his life is put into a new genre for her, murder mysteries. She agrees with readers of this category that one murder in a story is not nearly enough. Charles and Alexander Cambridge are sons of an earl who vie for the hand of a pretty, convent-schooled girl, Alicia Neville. Her bankrupt family urges her to marry the brooding Charles Cambridge, a man who was maimed in the Boer War, but who will inherit the title and estate, rather than his handsome, blond younger brother. As Cambridge family members are found dead, it appears that Alicia herself may be the next victim. Set in England in 1901, this is the bridge year between the Victorian and Edwardian eras, a rapidly evolving world of electric lights, telephones, automobiles and that hallmark of the modern era, indoor plumbing.