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Tabitha & Wolf Historical Mystery #15
A Burdened Woman
Tabitha and Wolf should be relishing the quiet joys of new parenthood when yet another investigation calls them away.
Lady Arlene Archibald approaches Wolf with a troubling request. An elderly stranger from Grenada has arrived in England with letters from her grandfather, once a wealthy plantation owner, and from Hana, the house slave he married after emancipation. The letters speak of a money placed with a Bristol charitable organisation to build a school in Grenada for the children of the formerly enslaved. The school was never built. Instead, the funds seem to have vanished into the so-called charitable world that now venerates Edward Colston as the city’s greatest benefactor.
A nonconformist minister in Bristol invites the Grenadian man to speak and expose this betrayal. Before he can share his story, he is found dead.
Despite the righteousness of the cause, Tabitha cannot quite banish her unease at Arlene’s summons. Now, Tabitha and Wolf must unravel a murder and a broken promise at the heart of respectable Bristol.
Lady Arlene Archibald approaches Wolf with a troubling request. An elderly stranger from Grenada has arrived in England with letters from her grandfather, once a wealthy plantation owner, and from Hana, the house slave he married after emancipation. The letters speak of a money placed with a Bristol charitable organisation to build a school in Grenada for the children of the formerly enslaved. The school was never built. Instead, the funds seem to have vanished into the so-called charitable world that now venerates Edward Colston as the city’s greatest benefactor.
A nonconformist minister in Bristol invites the Grenadian man to speak and expose this betrayal. Before he can share his story, he is found dead.
Despite the righteousness of the cause, Tabitha cannot quite banish her unease at Arlene’s summons. Now, Tabitha and Wolf must unravel a murder and a broken promise at the heart of respectable Bristol.
284 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 3, 2026
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March 14, 2026
A Burdened Woman is the 15th book in the Tabitha and Wolf series by Sara F. Noel. It features Tabitha, the current Countess of Pembroke and her husband Jeremy "Wolf" Chesterton, the Earl of Pembroke. A former romantic interest of Wolf's asks for help relating to the diversion of a charitable bequest intended to fund a school in Grenada. When an older man from Grenada who has come to Bristol to try to recover the funds is murdered Tabitha and Wolf investigate and are aided by Julia Chesterton, the Dowager Countess, Albert "Bear" Carruthers, Wolf's long time associate, and Isabella Hartwell, a new friend from America who was introduced in the previous book and will be the protagonist in a forthcoming spinoff series. This book can be read as a standalone, but reading the earlier books in the series will help in better understanding the recurring characters. Some of the more important characters from earlier books are only mentioned in passing this time.
May 4, 2026
Pride & Prejudice at Play
Wolf, Tabitha, and their unwieldy entourage head to Bristol to uncover the underhanded dealings of the prominent and proud whose prejudice leads to murder. Makes Austen seem tame.
Wolf, Tabitha, and their unwieldy entourage head to Bristol to uncover the underhanded dealings of the prominent and proud whose prejudice leads to murder. Makes Austen seem tame.
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