The Governess of Greyveil Manor: A Gripping Gothic Victorian Romance and Murder Mystery

Beverley Oakley

Jul 2026 · London Ladies in Peril Mystery Book 3 · Beverley Eikli

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A missing sister. A dangerous masquerade. A deadly secret hidden in the shadows.

To the polite world of 1880s London, Marianne is merely a highly sought-after courtesan.

But beneath her painted smiles lies a desperate woman hunting for her vanished twin sister.

When she is offered an eye-watering sum by the icy Lady Grimshaw to act as a "honey trap" governess at the remote Greyveil Manor, Marianne seizes the chance. Her mission is to distract a dangerous rogue, but her true objective is far more personal—Greyveil is the place from which her sister last communicated.

Sir Dominic Harrow, a respectable baronet and neighbour to the estate, is certain of one thing: the demure new governess is the mesmerising siren with whom he shared an unforgettable, passionate night in London.

Though Dominic is exasperated by the perilous game Marianne is playing, he cannot deny their forbidden attraction, even as they become entangled in a web of dark family secrets.

But Greyveil Manor is a house of deadly traps.

As Marianne inches closer to the horrifying truth about her sister's disappearance, she finds herself caught in a sinister conspiracy orchestrated by ruthless enemies. With a cold-blooded killer circling and her own life suddenly on the line, Marianne and Dominic must risk everything to unmask the villain—before Marianne becomes the next woman to vanish into the manor's shadows.

The Governess of Greyveil Manor delivers a dark, atmospheric Gothic murder mystery filled with romance, deception, and unforgivable secrets.

A missing sister. A dangerous masquerade. A deadly secret hidden in the shadows. To the polite world of 1880s London, Marianne is merely a highly sought-after courtesan. But beneath her painted smiles lies a desperate woman hunting for her vanished twin sister. When she is offered an eye-wateri...

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Beverley Oakley is an Australian author of more than 35 Regency romps, and Victorian and Georgian-set romances laced with mystery and intrigue. Under her other pen names - Beverley Eikli and B.G. Nettelton - she writes Africa-set romantic suspense and Women's Fiction. Born in the African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, Beverley married the handsome Norwegian bush pilot she met in Botswana's beautiful Okavango Delta while she was managing a safari lodge. She began her writing career as a journalist, but it was during long aerial survey contracts around the world-often as the sole woman on the crew-that she began to write romance novels as an escape from the isolation. Beverley lives just north of Melbourne with the same wonderful husband she whisked away from Botswana thirty years ago, together with their youngest daughter (the oldest lives in Norway), and a gorgeous, dopey Rhodesian Ridgeback who weighs more than she does. When she's not writing, she runBeverley Oakley is an Australian author of more than 35 Regency romps, and Victorian and Georgian-set romances laced with mystery and intrigue. Under her other pen names - Beverley Eikli and B.G. Nettelton - she writes Africa-set romantic suspense and Women's Fiction. Born in the African mountain kingdom of Lesotho, Beverley married the handsome Norwegian bush pilot she met in Botswana's beautiful Okavango Delta while she was managing a safari lodge. She began her writing career as a journalist, but it was during long aerial survey contracts around the world-often as the sole woman on the crew-that she began to write romance novels as an escape from the isolation. Beverley lives just north of Melbourne with the same wonderful husband she whisked away from Botswana thirty years ago, together with their youngest daughter (the oldest lives in Norway), and a gorgeous, dopey Rhodesian Ridgeback who weighs more than she does.

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