The first enthralling story in the Oaklands Manor trilogy England, 1912 is a place of rigid rules. A chance meeting between scullery maid Lizzy Parker and heiress Evie Creswell is about to break them all. Their meeting leads to an enduring friendship and a new job for Lizzy - it also draws her into a world of privilege and intrigue and delivers her into the loving arms of a killer. As she becomes embroiled in the dangerous life that Carlisle lives, she must decide if he can be trusted with the life of a close friend, and, ultimately, if he is worth the risk to her own...About the Author: Terri Nixon was born in Plymouth, England, in 1965. At the age of 9 she moved with her family to a small village on the fringe of Bodmin Moor, where she discovered a love of writing that has stayed with her ever since. Since publishing in paperback (through independent small press BeWrite) in 2002, Terri has appeared in both print and online fiction collections, and is currently hard at work on her next novel: Penhaligon's Attic.