Secrets and skulduggery in Regency England! Nell Kydd's father is dead, her brother Kit is missing and her loathsome uncle is wrecking the family estate with his mismanagement. Add a perturbing lack of funds, an unwelcome proposal of marriage and a mother who lives in a reality of her own, and it is easy to see why Nell is at her wit's end. Cue the arrival of the unsettling Captain Hugo Derringer: an old schoolfriend of Kit's who blows hot, then cold, and is discovered at odd times - in odd places - asking some very odd questions. How far can Nell trust him? The Kydd Inheritance is a prequel to Fair Deception, which was shortlisted for the RNA Love Story of the Year 2010.