In Victorian England, a fortune now depends on which of two brothers outlives the other—or can be made to have seemed to do so.

Jane is young, French, pregnant and unmarried. Bucking convention, she is uninterested in settling with her baby’s father or getting an abortion. After renting a room in a dingy London…

Crime writer Andrew Dax and his gorgeous wife Kate go on holiday to a country cottage, where they receive an unexpected visitor, the bossy Miss Tulip, who needs shelter for…