Spanish Widow

Volume two of The Roxberg TrilogyAfter the birth of her second daughter, Inez Roxberg a wealthy spirited artist from Madrid, distanced herself from her unfaithful husband, his mistress, and their love child to pursue an uninhibited bohemian life in France. Many years later, standing at his graveside, she vowed never again to relinquish her wealth and power to anyone. Her late husband's final gift of a long-case clock becomes an ill-fated harbinger of sinister deceptions calculated to steal her wealth and erode her sanity. When two men enter her life, one a bold adventurer, the other a tantalising libertine each with their own hidden agenda, who will she choose, who dare she trust with her life?Haunted to the point of obsession by the tragic death of her eldest daughter Honore, Inez embarks on a quest to discover the truth and serve justice on her killer. Oblivious to the destructive forces surrounding her, Inez unknowingly descends into a criminal underworld of art forgery, a forced marriage and death.