The Ninth StoneAmen Corner, London, 1864. Orphan Sarah O'Reilly has disguised herself as a boy so that she can work in the offices of Septimus Harding's newspaper, the LONDON MERCURY. She meets Lily Korechnya, a wealthy widow who writes a column for the paper under a pseudonym. Lily has been enlisted by Lady Cynthia Herbert to help catalogue her magnificent jewel collection. She is especially struck by several large gems that belong to the Maharaja of Benares, which

Then one of her clients an enigmatic old man who had commissioned a family tree of his granddaughter's boyfriend is shot dead at his isolated farm in the Cotswolds just as shocking facts about the past are brought to light

a forbidden friends-to-lovers romance

Moveable Feast

all-consuming love that threatened to devour them whole

Bailiff Simon Puttock's servant

and learns lots of exciting facts about history

Critically ill

a crucial book' Adam Kay

comes to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps

the ethereally beautiful Soudamini

but a raft don't

they must navigate through realms of unimaginable darkness