Portrait of a Duchess

Evelyn Thorne accepts the Duke of Ashford's proposal to save her brother from the lung disease that is killing him day by day. She enters Ashford Manor carrying the hope of a new bride, but that hope shatters on her wedding night, when Alistair whispers another name into her ear: Marguerite. From then on, she lives as a copy of the dead woman, wearing Marguerite's dresses, sleeping in Marguerite's bed, watched by eyes that are at once hungry and hateful. But as Evelyn grows with child and the secrets behind Marguerite's death begin to rise from the ash, she realizes the one who killed Alistair's former fiancée still lives inside this very house, and that she is the next target.