S. K. Rizzolo
Unhappy wife and young mother Penelope Wolfe fears scandal for her family and worse. Fresh controversy is stirred up by a round of letters penned by the firebrand Collatinus. Twenty years before, her father, the radical Eustace Sandford, also wrote as Collatinus before he fled London when a mysterious beauty known only as N.D. was brutally slain. Now the seditious new Collatinus letters attack the Prince Regent in the press and seek to unmask N.D.'s murderer. Her artist husband Jeremy being no reliable ally, Penelope turns to lawyer Edward Buckler and Bow Street Runner John Chase. As she battles public notoriety, Buckler and Chase put their careers at risk to stand behind her and find N.D.'s killer. As they navigate the dark underbelly of 1813 London among a cast driven by dirty politics and dark passions, as well as by decency and a desire for justice, past secrets and present criminals are exposed, upending Penelope's life and the lives of others. S.K. Rizzolo is a longtime Anglophile and history enthusiast. An English teacher, Rizzolo has earned an M.A. in literature and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and daughter. www.skrizzolo.com