The Princess and the Peonies

With her latest movie finished and her latest murder solved, Stella Hart is finally ready to take on the role of a lifetime—blushing bride in the wedding of her mother's dreams. Barrington Hall is full to bursting with relatives, friends, and the cream of the English upper classes, waiting to watch Stella marry her beloved George. Stella promises Mom there'll be no murders, no mysteries at all.But that's before she meets her bridesmaids. Veronica Houston is a cousin who's been stuck with the life Stella escaped with their opinionated and always-disapproving Granny Hart. Caroline Pitts is the sister of the late Monty Pitts, the victim of one of the murders Stella solved. And Alisande St. John-Smythe is a beautiful but poisonous English rose who was once engaged to George herself and who seems to have agreed to be a bridesmaid just so she can ruin Stella's wedding.And then the cat burglar turns up.The Princess and the Peonies is Book 4 of the Stella Hart Mysteries series by acclaimed romance, mystery, and horror novelist Lucy Blue.