The sixth installment in New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray's beloved Mr. Darcy and Miss Tilney mystery series finds amateur sleuths Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney fleeing to Bath where their elopement plans are interrupted by a murder

Jonathan Darcy and Juliet Tilney have thrown caution and propriety to the wind and run away together! At first, the young lovers are ebullient-this is the only way they can ever be together. But reality slowly sets in: they have little money, the elder Mr. Darcy will surely search all London for them, and though they are respectably lodging separately, no one will readily believe in their innocence. In other words, Juliet will be not only "ruined" but also completely outcast if they cannot find a way to marry soon, before their parents can stop them. Their efforts take them to Bath where, by great luck, they encounter their friends Anne and Frederick Wentworth, who agree to shelter them. How can Jonathan and Juliet ever repay this kindness?

That question answers itself when Anne's titled, egotistical father is found murdered. Jonathan and Juliet immediately begin delving into the Elliot family's past and soon realize: the question is not who had motive to kill Sir Walter Elliot, but who did not! As Jonathan and Juliet's banns are read at a local church-the prelude to legal marriage, but one which risks revealing their whereabouts to their families-they must race against time. Will they be able to solve the murder before they are discovered? Or will doing so cost them their one chance to wed before being torn apart forever?