Secrecy by Mary Kingwood

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I loved this story. Tess is delightful with a bit of naivety along with years of being overlooked.  All she thinks she wants in life is money and freedom. Yet to get her money, she feels she has to give up her freedom because being married means being subjugated by her husband. The only problem is to get her fortune she has to marry. Edward needs to stop her marriage to Ulric but falls in love with the woman. She is definitely no society maid. These two go back and forth until Tess has some sense literally choked into her. The secrets of the murdered chaplain are now unraveling and still we are no closer to his murderer. Love is in the air but will it be ignored for  fortune or true fortune? Let’s face it! With Tess around nothing will be easy or predictable. Enjoy an adventure of secrets, love, fortune hunting during a murder investigation that gets more puzzling by the moment.