Memories, Magic, and Mayhem

Propriety insists ladies should never sprint, exchange gunfire, or perfect a right hook. How dull.Since Penelope Sedgewick felt such arbitrary societal expectations were rubbish, she became a sleuth. When not avoiding dances or calls by tiresome would-be suitors, she investigates delicate matters for ladies-love nests, stolen jewels, missing husbands who may or may not have been eaten by dragons-the usual.When a lady from another time falls dead at her feet, she plunges headlong into the past (quite literally) to unravel a mystery thirty years in the making. Penelope's skills will be put to the test as she wrestles with ghosts from her future, tiresome rakes, and even Fate, all while concealing her magical abilities.Will she be able to prevent the girl's death without altering history? Or will she inadvertently step on one too many butterflies, harming her family forever?Memories, Magic, and Mayhem is the second novel in the Alderwood Regency Mysteries-a series of cozy fantasies set in a reimagined regency world filled with dragons, magic, and intrigue.