A Dangerous Collaboration (Veronica Speedwell, #4)

by Deanna Raybourn

Desserts

function of an éminence grise, the power behind the royal family, always guiding, protecting, shielding, not for love of the family themselves but for love of the land and people they governed.

Helen ..sister in law to Malcolm. Married to Lucian

Mertensia. Sister to Malcolm

Rosamund...bride to Malcolm....disappeared on wedding day

On their wedding day, Rosamund disappeared—apparently in her wedding gown and veil.”

“Cestrums are nightshades,

Cestrums are toxic, particularly the one whose perfume you can smell. That is Cestrum nocturnum, night-blooming jasmine,”

“Hearts are the same as bones, you know,” she said as she picked up her tankard again. “Are they?” “Aye. One may be broken into a thousand pieces, but when they are bound together again and a heart is made whole, the love it gives will be all the fiercer.”