The Poison Glass Marquess
(2026)(The third book in the Sableford Scandals series)
A novel by Claire Bessey
A dangerous marquess. A brilliant scientific heroine. A poisoned glass that may prove one of Sableford’s oldest deaths was murder.
Lord Silvan Veyne, Marquess of Drevington, has built his reputation carefully. Society sees him as charming, reckless, and far too handsome for his own good. That suits him perfectly. A man dismissed as a rake can listen at doors, study faces, and notice what serious men are foolish enough to reveal.
Miss Octavia Quill has no patience for charming men, especially not Silvan Veyne. Years ago, one reckless kiss in a conservatory became a scandal that damaged her far more than it damaged him. Now she has been summoned to Sableford House for a task too serious for old resentment: test the glassware once used by Sir Osric Dane, the Dowager Countess’s second husband.
Sir Osric’s death was called a lingering illness. But a recovered note warns that his cordial glass must never be tested.
Octavia knows illness can be misread. She also knows poison can hide in routine, in a private decanter, in a polished stopper, and in glass everyone thinks is clean.
As Octavia examines old cordial glasses, altered ledgers, strange stains, missing shards, and a six-glass case with only five glasses inside, Silvan is assigned to watch her. He expects suspicion. He does not expect to admire her. Octavia expects arrogance. She does not expect Silvan to be clever enough to see the danger closing around her.
When her tests are sabotaged and a hidden claim file surfaces inside Sir Osric’s glass records, the investigation turns deadly. Someone used poison to protect an inheritance fraud, and the truth may expose another piece of the Sableford Settlement, the private family system built from silence, stolen claims, and powerful men who believed records could erase people.
With Nox, the one-eyed raven, stealing labels, stoppers, and anything shiny enough to matter, Silvan and Octavia must follow the evidence before the killer destroys what remains.
But the most dangerous discovery may not be poison.
It may be trust.
The Poison Glass Marquess is a clean Regency romantic mystery filled with scientific clues, aristocratic scandal, closed-door romance, old poison, family secrets, witty tension, and a slow-burn love story between a brilliant woman and the charming marquess who finally stops pretending to be harmless.
Perfect for readers who enjoy clean historical romance, Regency mystery, scientific heroines, dangerous rakes, family conspiracy, poison investigations, fair-play clues, and romantic suspense with no explicit scenes.
Genre: Historical Romance
Lord Silvan Veyne, Marquess of Drevington, has built his reputation carefully. Society sees him as charming, reckless, and far too handsome for his own good. That suits him perfectly. A man dismissed as a rake can listen at doors, study faces, and notice what serious men are foolish enough to reveal.
Miss Octavia Quill has no patience for charming men, especially not Silvan Veyne. Years ago, one reckless kiss in a conservatory became a scandal that damaged her far more than it damaged him. Now she has been summoned to Sableford House for a task too serious for old resentment: test the glassware once used by Sir Osric Dane, the Dowager Countess’s second husband.
Sir Osric’s death was called a lingering illness. But a recovered note warns that his cordial glass must never be tested.
Octavia knows illness can be misread. She also knows poison can hide in routine, in a private decanter, in a polished stopper, and in glass everyone thinks is clean.
As Octavia examines old cordial glasses, altered ledgers, strange stains, missing shards, and a six-glass case with only five glasses inside, Silvan is assigned to watch her. He expects suspicion. He does not expect to admire her. Octavia expects arrogance. She does not expect Silvan to be clever enough to see the danger closing around her.
When her tests are sabotaged and a hidden claim file surfaces inside Sir Osric’s glass records, the investigation turns deadly. Someone used poison to protect an inheritance fraud, and the truth may expose another piece of the Sableford Settlement, the private family system built from silence, stolen claims, and powerful men who believed records could erase people.
With Nox, the one-eyed raven, stealing labels, stoppers, and anything shiny enough to matter, Silvan and Octavia must follow the evidence before the killer destroys what remains.
But the most dangerous discovery may not be poison.
It may be trust.
The Poison Glass Marquess is a clean Regency romantic mystery filled with scientific clues, aristocratic scandal, closed-door romance, old poison, family secrets, witty tension, and a slow-burn love story between a brilliant woman and the charming marquess who finally stops pretending to be harmless.
Perfect for readers who enjoy clean historical romance, Regency mystery, scientific heroines, dangerous rakes, family conspiracy, poison investigations, fair-play clues, and romantic suspense with no explicit scenes.
Genre: Historical Romance
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