Author: ellenread

Benedict Archer, who is manager of Thornton Antiques in Melbourne and who has been secretly helping Alexandra learn more about her family business, is also invited. Alexandra asks Benedict and Edith Blackburn, her friend since childhood, to be with her when she approaches her father. When Edith claims that Benedict is in love with her, Alexandra can’t believe it. In all the time they’d been at … time they’d been at Thornton Antiques together, he’d never said a word. Now, Alexandra looks at him differently. Can it be true? Then a body found in the orchard and, before the weekend…

A Dragon statue. An ancient sword. What treasure is worth killing for?It’s 1927 in Victoria, Australia. A hedonistic time after the Great War when young people knew they could enjoy life without the threat of war hanging over them. A time when women have more options opened to them.Alexandra Thornton was born in to a wealthy pastoralist family, who made their money on the land, the Victorian … the land, the Victorian goldfields and in antiques. Alexandra decides to break the news to her father that she wants to be an antiques dealer, like him, her grandfather and great-grandfather before…