Ladies of Intrigue: 3 Tales of 19th-Century Romance with a Dash of Mystery

In The Gentleman Smuggler's Lady, a prim governess returns to England from abroad expecting to comfort her dying father -- not fall in love with a smuggler. The Doctor's Woman finds missionary's daughter Emmy Nelson and city doctor James Clark working together at Fort Snelling during the Dakota Uprising, when a real clash of ideals begins. And in A House of Secrets, Ladies Aide Chairman Amanda Carston resolves to clean up St. Paul's ramshackle housing. But the house she starts with, secretly owned by her beau, is used to help brothel girls escape from the city's most infamous madam.