Shakespearean actress turned Pinkerton detective Lilly
Long and her reluctant partner, Cade McShane, travel to New
Orleans to save a young widow from a fate worse than death…
1881, Chicago. Assigned to her second case as a
Pinkerton, Lilly still needs to prove herself—both as a
novice detective and as a woman in a man’s world. Ordered to
once again work with Lilly, Cade needs to redeem himself for
conduct unbecoming to a Pinkerton—a grief-driven drunken
brawl. As if their forced partnership wasn’t bad enough, the
agents must pose as husband and wife servants in the
troubled household of a wealthy New Orleans family. An
acting challenge if ever there was one…
The elderly matriarch of the Fortenot family is convinced
her grandson’s former widow has been unjustly committed to
an insane asylum by her second husband. She believes the man
is attempting to wrest the family fortune away from his new
wife. Soon, behind the beautiful façade of the Fortenot
mansion, the detectives uncover secrets, betrayal, voodoo
curses—and murder. Even as Lilly and Cade chafe against
their roles, they must work together to expose the true
villain of this tragedy before the hapless widow faces her
final curtain call.
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