Esta serie transporta a los lectores al mundo de casonas señoriales en decadencia y las complejas vidas de sus habitantes. Sigue a los personajes mientras navegan por secretos, matrimonios en ruinas y pasados ocultos dentro de familias aristocráticas. Cada entrega promete un viaje cautivador hacia misterios desenterrados en grandiosas, pero problemáticas, fincas ancestrales, ofreciendo una mezcla de suspense y drama social.
Accompanying American heiress Belle Seldon on a visit to her ancestral family home in Somerset, Ursula Grandison soon discovers that the decaying stately Mountstanton House and its inhabitants has many secrets, including a crumbling marriage and a missing dowry.
As she struggles to make a living in a society where women have few rights and little freedom, she teams up with old friend and private investigator Thomas Jackman, who soon finds himself drawing on Ursula's investigative abilities as they battle to save an innocent woman from the noose.