Isabella Hartwell Books in Order
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Free Isabella Hartwell Prequel
An Inconvenient Heiress
On the voyage from New York to England, Isabella Hartwell’s search for adventure begins when a priceless emerald necklace vanishes and suspicion falls on a maid. With the ship days from port, Isabella follows details others dismiss and discovers that convenient answers are often the least trustworthy.
Isabella Hartwell Book 1
An Impertinent Heiress
Late 1890s England. American heiress Isabella Hartwell arrives at Banbury Hall expecting society scrutiny and perhaps adventure. After a heated quarrel ends in Lord Ravensmere’s death, suspicion falls close to Isabella herself. Determined to uncover the truth, she investigates aristocratic rivalries, financial secrets, and the carefully maintained appearances of an English country house.
Isabella Hartwell Book 2
A Coveted Heiress
London, late 1890s. An exclusive event at Harrods turns deadly when a death that appears accidental raises Isabella’s suspicions. Her investigation leads from glittering showrooms to private corridors, uncovering concealed debts, bargains, and social ambition in a world where reputation is currency and respectability can become a motive for murder.
Isabella Hartwell Book 3
A Studious Heiress
Oxford, 1899. Isabella expects scholarship and intellectual conversation but finds a university world where women may study without being treated as equals. When a male academic is murdered and suspicion falls on a young woman, Isabella follows altered records, academic ambition, inheritance, and a scandal someone is willing to kill to protect.
Isabella Hartwell Book 4
A Notorious Heiress
New York, 1899. Isabella has barely returned to Fifth Avenue when a young actress is arrested for murdering a notorious newspaper columnist. The victim traded in other people’s secrets, giving Broadway insiders, politicians, and respectable families reasons to want him silenced, while the newspapers turn Isabella’s investigation into a scandal of its own.