The Rossington Inheritance (a first printing)

Lucy Rossington has put a promising career on hold, so that she can keep the family home going for her young brother Will. Not an easy task, when home is an Elizabethan manor that the family have lived in for generations.

Grandmother Isobel is favourably inclined to Lucy’s plans to keep them afloat and bring them into the modern world, but the estate manager opposes anything new and could make progress difficult. Fortunately Lucy has the support of her elegant and impulsive childhood friend Anna.

There are newcomers on the scene, though, and Lucy begins to wonder if they are all that they seem. When the taint of avarice and deceit from the past seems to stain the present, it becomes essential to know who she can trust, not only for her own happiness, but also for the safety of her family and friends. Will she find out in time?

Mary Tant has been a historical researcher for many years, and now specializes in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Her interest in history began in childhood with Richard III, Rupert of the Rhine and the young Elizabeth Tudor. Wildlife observation also started early with the plants and creatures in the woodland beside her home. An interest in crime fiction came later, but has proved just as enduring.