Fatal legacy

When the novelist Dame Elizabeth Blackmore dies, her friend Sheila Malory is stunned. While sorting through Elizabeth's papers, Sheila finds a half-written novel that she becomes certain draws on its author's own life. Had Elizabeth been living a second life that no one knew about?

The question sharpens when a scholar who was researching Elizabeth's life also dies. Sheila must decide whether these deaths are an unlucky coincidence or something far more sinister.