In the waning days of summer, Jane Austen is off to the Canterbury Races, where the rich and fashionable go to gamble away their fortunes. She is unprepared for the shocking drama that ensues when Francoise Grey, a raven-haired wanton, recklessly leaps the rail on her fleet black horse and joins the race. Only hours after Mrs. Grey has departed the race grounds in triumph, her lifeless body (minus her ruby riding habit) is found, gruesomely strangled. As rumors spread that Napoleon's fleet is bound for Kent, Jane begins to ...
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In the waning days of summer, Jane Austen is off to the Canterbury Races, where the rich and fashionable go to gamble away their fortunes. She is unprepared for the shocking drama that ensues when Francoise Grey, a raven-haired wanton, recklessly leaps the rail on her fleet black horse and joins the race. Only hours after Mrs. Grey has departed the race grounds in triumph, her lifeless body (minus her ruby riding habit) is found, gruesomely strangled. As rumors spread that Napoleon's fleet is bound for Kent, Jane begins to suspect that Grey's murder was an act of war rather than a crime of passion. The peaceful fields of Kent have become a very dangerous place...and Jane's thirst for justice may exact the steepest price of all - her life.
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