Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are drawn into a bizarre mystery when an oddly familiar stranger arrives on their doorstep with a wild tale about the enigmatic Marsh Hughenfort, younger brother of the Duke of Beauville.
Beatrice Lacey, destined by the social customs of eighteenth-century England to lose both her family name and her beloved Wideacre estate when she marries, decides to go to any lengths necessary to retain ownership of her ancestral home.
The continuing saga of the Laceys, an 18th-century Sussex family, and the superstitious villagers who knew the legend of the favored child, who would make Wideacre grow lush again.
Meridon, a vagabond gypsy, allows her vague memories of a very different life, as well as the necklace that is her birthright, to lead her home to Wideacre where she takes her place as its mistress.
Ambitious young lawyer Samantha Sweeting stumbles into an entirely new way of life when a costly error at work has her fleeing to the countryside where she is mistakenly hired as a housekeeper--despite a complete lack of domestic skills--and finds love with the handsome gardener.
