From the award-winning novelist and writer of Upstairs Downstairs, the third book in a brilliant trilogy about what life was really like for masters and servants before the world of Downton Abbey. England, 1903. Lord Robert and Lady Isobel Dilberne and the entire grand estate, with its hundred rooms, is busy planning for a visit from Edward VII and Queen Alexandra just a few months a way. Preparations are elaborate and exhaustive the menus and fashions must be just so, and so must James, the new heir and son of Arthur Dilberne and Chicago heiress, Minnie OBrien. But there are problems. Little James is being reared to Lady Isobels tastes, not Minnies. And Mrs. OBrien is visiting from America and causing trouble. Meanwhile, the Dilbernes niece, Adela is back and stirring up hysteria in the servants hall by claiming the house is cursed.
