A Meiji Mystery

Everyone has secrets ? ? but few people would kill to conceal them. In 1880, Henry Sinclair, a jaded British diplomat recently returned from Japan, is found dead in the garden of the American Deputy Ambassador?s residence in London. For over a century the circumstances surrounding his death remain uncertain. Thirty-four year-old Peta Hansen has set out to create a quiet, safe life as a lecturer and writer of Japanese history, successfully hiding her secret identity as the author of historical adventure novels. When Peta agrees to undertake an academic study of Meiji Japan (1868-1912), she does it to cover her hefty mortgage payments. But as she delves into the lives of four men of that period, her protected life is increasingly put at risk. Peta has to solve the century-old puzzle in order to understand why someone is threatening her in modern-day London and stop them before there is another death?her own.