Janie Van Duyvil expected to fend off rumors at her brother's Twelfth Night ball—those are par for the course in New York's turn-of-the-century social scene—but when her brother Bayard is found murdered with a knife in his chest, and Bay's wife Annabelle is presumed drowned in the river beside the estate, Janie suddenly finds her family the focus of a scandal that could swallow them all. Desperate to clear her brother's name, Janie reaches out to a reporter, and together they begin to uncover the truth of what happened that night—and who, exactly, Annabelle really was. Told in alternating timelines, this mysterious, romantic historical fiction will keep you guessing until the very end!