Tamara Siler Jones

The Linen Maid's Choice Tamara Siler Jones

An unseen killer has hunted servant girls in the halls and courtyard of Castle Faldorrah for days, leaving eleven dribbling ghosts to haunt aging castellan Dubric Byerly with the weight of their deaths. The three surviving victims-Dubric's page Lars, herald Beckwith, and, finally, linen maid Nella-offer only more questions until Nella's benefactor and romantic pursuer, Lord Risley Romlin, defiant grandson of the King and Faldorrah's Lord, forcibly kidnapped Nella and held her in his private suite, supposedly to protect her. Dubric knew better. A package soon arrived at Dubric's suite, a vile, taunting collection of gruesome mementos, all leading directly to Nella and Risley's desperate need to possess her. Now certain of Risley's guilt, Dubric arrests the young lord and locks him deep beneath the castle. Risley's imprisonment and the lack of new murders does little to quell the fury as castle residents demand Risley's immediate execution. Nella alone stands true, insisting her beloved is innocent. Despite assurances assurance that justice prevails, Nella takes steps to protect Risley, steps that undermine Dubric's desperate attempts to avoid a war.