A Code of Love (The Code Breaker Series)
 How would you have coped as a woman in the socially-constrained world of 19th Century England? Would you have been prone to fits of the vapors and needing regular dosing with Laudanum? Or would you have fought the constraints? Riding your horse astride? Voicing your own opinions?How to create a feisty historical heroine, who we as romance mystery readers expect, is one of the challenges of writing historical suspense. Lady Henrietta Harcourt inA Code of Loveis a brilliant linguist but she has to hide her talents. Ladies weren't supposed to demonstrate or discuss their intellectual interests or achievements. Besides being feisty as a requirement for our suspense heroines, we want to see our heroine's connections. As women, we take care of a lot of people in our lives--our partners, our children, our parents and our friends. Henrietta like every woman has family responsibilities. After both her parents die, Henrietta runs the household taking care of her uncle, England's foremost code breaker and her two brothers.   All is running smoothly in the Harcourt household until Henrietta's older brother vanishes while on a clandestine assignment in Paris. Can Henrietta use her talents and skills to find her brother and remain under the radar of the newly appointed head of England's Intelligence office, the handsome, rake Lord Cord Rathbourne?