Winifred Sadlier

Alyssa Carlton is a young lawyer waiting for her first big case to come along, when she is invited by a work colleague, Emma Tylor, to visit LEAL, an eighteenth-century mansion in Homebush. Something keeps drawing Alyssa back to the old house.When two members of Emma's family die in mysterious circumstances. Alyssa is the only person to support Emma.Joe Rookas, Alyssa's detective boyfriend is working the two cases and advises Alyssa to stay away from LEAL and Emma.A friend of Alyssa's, Daniel Meagher, is left money by one of the deceased and Joe starts to look at Daniel as a suspect for murder.

Set in the 1700s, The Shepherd's Daughter tells the story of Leah Fenton. Leah's expectation of a simple life on the Yorkshire Moors ends when her father dies under suspicious circumstances and Lady Carlton refuses her work at the manor house. Discover who murdered Shepherd Fenton and how Leah comes to join a family of Whitby smugglers. Her surprise when she searches for her first love, Alex Thirwell to learn he's wanted for murder and suspects Alex sailed on Endeavour with James Cook.