The Woman Who Walked at Dusk (Elizabeth & Darcy Regency Mystery #4)
Louisa Fenwick
A Regency Mystery
The Elizabeth & Darcy Regency Mystery Series — Book 4
In the elegant city of Bath, there are houses one admires… and houses one avoids.
Ravenscroft House belongs firmly to the latter. Spoken of only lightly and never directly, it is known for a harmless little story—of a woman glimpsed at twilight, standing silent in an upper window. No one is frightened. No one investigates. And no one goes there.
Elizabeth Bennet is not content with stories that exist to prevent questions.
As she begins to trace the legend’s careful repetitions, Elizabeth discovers that the so-called haunting follows a precise pattern—appearing only when doubt would be useful, and vanishing whenever belief might be secured. With Mr Darcy’s quiet assistance, what first appears to be a ghost story reveals itself as something far more unsettling: a life managed into invisibility, and a reputation dismantled before it could ever speak.
But in Bath, truth is dangerous not because it shocks, but because it disrupts.
As Elizabeth risks her own standing to expose what society has agreed not to see, Darcy must decide how far justice can go without spectacle—and whether silence, once broken, can ever be repaired. Together, they unravel a deception built not on fear, but on polite indifference, where cruelty wears the mask of care and order is preserved at a human cost.
Because some ghosts are not meant to frighten.
They are meant to be dismissed.
And some stories end not when they are disproved, but when no one needs them anymore.
