Escaping Notice

Wrestling with bitter grief when an act of sabotage kills his younger brother, Hugh Castle, Earl of Monnow, demands justice. Believing he was the target, not his innocent brother, anger drives him to find the man responsible. And when everyone assumes he drowned with his brother, Hugh fosters that belief in hopes of tricking the elusive killer into revealing himself. But Hugh doesn't count on running into two others also desperate to escape notice by assuming false identities. Helen Archer lost the fabled Peckham necklace at a ball given at Ormsby and risks censure and shame if she doesn't find it. Young Edward Brown only wants to escape his unpleasant guardians and go to sea like his hero, Admiral Nelson. When the three meet, Helen and Hugh discover they are both going to Ormsby and hatch the perfect plan. By masquerading as servants, they can gain access to Hugh's grand house and accomplish their missions in secret. But Edward objects for purely practical reasons. He wants to go to sea, not to Ormsby, and he definitely doesn't want to spend his days polishing boots as a pretend servant. But the young boy's objections are overruled, and the adventure begins. Escaping Notice is the fourth in the Archer family series of witty Regency mysteries where love is always an adventure.