The Vesper Bells — Betty Hale Hyatt

For 18 years the east wing had kept its secret, but now Mona Dee, Arabella's daughter, had come home, as beautiful as her long-lost mother...and perhaps as doomed!

An Heiress Returns...

As Mona Dee drove into the grounds of Vespers, the bells in the old priory rang out a welcome... or was it a warning? Mona had been summoned from exile by her ailing grandfather to take her place as mistress of the manor. She had never been told anything about the scandal that had forced Sir Duncan to send her away when she was three. Now it was a shock to learn that her father had killed a man -- believed to be her mother's lover -- and had died on the gallows, while her mother, Arabella, had simply disappeared! It was also a shock to find she was betrothed -- to the heir to the next estate. Tavor Camblyn was certainly handsome, but arrogant... and perhaps in love with someone else? The past, though, interested Mona more than her prospective groom. Not everyone believed her father -- or her mother -- guilty. But if they were innocent, what was the truth about the 18-year-old tragedy? On the eve of her engagement ball, Mona learned part of the answer when murder again rang the vesper bells.

Hero: Tavor Camblyn
Heroine: Mona Dee