Beatrix

If you enjoyed the romance, humour, mystery and fun of the Shackleford Sisters, get ready for more mayhem with the Victorian Shacklefords…

Ten days after the shocking events in Casa-del-Mar, everyone in Cliff House is on edge. Muriel Pemberton has vanished with the Pembroke files, Benedict Hartley has not been seen since that fateful evening and Jacob White is still very much at large.
Then two things happen at once. Robert Noon – son of Henry Shackleford’s oldest friend Finn – steps off the SS Lusitania at Plymouth’s Millbay Docks, carrying letters from Australia and news that cannot wait. And Billy Wiggins, who has been conspicuously absent since breakfast, is nowhere to be found…

With a forced transfer to Newcastle sitting on Benedict’s desk like a death warrant, Benedict knows that pursuing Jacob White means risking everything, including the woman he loves. Asking Arabella to follow him into danger is unthinkable. Leaving her behind may prove impossible.
As an auction of innocents looms at the end of June, Shackleford and Daughters are about to discover that Jacob White’s reach extends far beyond Torbay, and the most dangerous things in England are sometimes dressed up in the very best charitable intentions.

For Beatrix Shackleford, who has always considered romance a vastly overrated pursuit best left to her sisters, the arrival of the tall, sun-bronzed Robert Noon is about to prove deeply, infuriatingly inconvenient…

In this, the third book in the Shackleford and Daughters series, the Shackleford family faces their greatest test yet – where the pursuit of justice demands more courage than any of them bargained for, and love has an inconvenient habit of arriving at the most dangerous possible moment…
Note: While this novel doesn’t contain an excessive number of spicy scenes, it isn’t closed-door and wouldn’t be considered