Stoker and his brother constantly snipe over Veronica, whom Tiberius works to seduce and Stoker secretly wants to marry. The island is large enough for farms and a village whose superstitious natives tell tales of piskies and mermaids. Upon their arrival in Cornwall, they find Stoker, refusing to be left out, waiting to join a group that includes Malcolm his sister, Mertensia, a tireless gardener his sister-in-law, Helen her son, Caspian and a crew of servants directed by longtime family retainer Mrs. What Tiberius doesn't tell Veronica-yet-is that she'll have to pose as his fiancee to gain the approval of their Catholic host, who wouldn't approve of an unchaperoned single woman. Maddern's Isle off the coast of Cornwall to visit the castle of his old friend Malcolm Romilly, who’s promised to give Veronica some larvae of the Romilly Glasswing butterfly, thought to be extinct. He’s not happy, either, that his elder brother, Tiberius, Lord Templeton-Vane, wants Veronica to accompany him to St. Returning to London from Madeira, Veronica Speedwell gets the cold shoulder from her companion in mystery solving, Stoker Templeton-Vane ( A Treacherous Curse, 2018, etc.), who’s still furious that he was left out of the unexplained trip.
An intrepid lepidopterist and her sometime lover are caught up in yet another extravagant adventure in 1888.
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