title: The Kydd Inheritance
author: Jones, Jan
description: Secrets and skulduggery in Regency England!
  
  Nell Kydd's father is dead, her brother Kit is missing and her loathsome uncle is wrecking the family estate with his mismanagement. Add a perturbing lack of funds, an unwelcome proposal of marriage and a mother who lives in a reality of her own, and it is easy to see why Nell is at her wit's end.
  
  Cue the arrival of the unsettling Captain Hugo Derringer: an old schoolfriend of Kit's who blows hot, then cold, and is discovered at odd times - in odd places - asking some very odd questions. How far can Nell trust him?