Tangled Destinies by Blair Bancroft

Miss Lucinda Neville has more than a few problems. She has felled her importunate brother-in-law, become a surrogate mother to a foreigner's baby, a keeper of dangerous secrets, and staunch defender of a child someone seems to want gone from this earth. And then she finds herself under attack as well. The person with the most motive? The rakish son of a marquess who just happens to have the best reason for doing away with both Lucinda and the babe.
Author's Note: Tangled Destinies is a Gothic in the grand tradition of the Victorian and contemporary Gothics of Victoria Holt and Mary Stewart. My Gothic novels, however, are set in the early 19th century period known as the Regency. I hope you will enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy writing them.