Jane and His Lordship's Legacy — Stephanie Barron

Taking up a new residence at Chawton Cottage in Hampshire, Jane Austen finds herself heir to an extraordinary bequest: a Bengal chest filled with the late Lord Harold Trowbridge's most intimate personal papers. From these, Jane is expected to write a memoir of the Gentleman Rogue for posterity. But before she can put pen to paper on this last labor of love, she discovers a corpse in the cellar of her new home.

Just as Jane glimpses a connection between the murder and Lord Harold's papers, violent death strikes again. Soon Jane's racing to catch a cunning killer to protect her lover's legacy. And her undying loyalty could exact the costliest price of all: her own life.