The Secret of Pembrooke Park is Julie Klassen's story of romance and mystery set in the faded glory of a once great house in Regency rural Berkshire.

The story opens with a mysterious invitation to the Foster family - themselves in the middle of a serious financial crisis - to take over the residency of Pembrooke Park.

The Foster family, including the sensible Abigail - fresh from her own failed adventure in love and attendant fears of spinsterhood - and her flighty sister, Louisa, move to Berkshire.

When they arrive at Pembrooke Park, they find the house deserted as it was abandoned without warning. There tea cups encrusted with dry tea, moth-eaten clothes in wardrobes and a doll's house left mid-play.

The only clue to the manor's past is a stern warning sign to trespassers drawn by rumors that Pembrooke Park contains a hidden room filled with treasure.

Family secrets of the Pembrookes, their relationships and intrigues are peeled back and exposed in a story that spans 20 years with consequences that the Foster family could not have foreseen.

As old friends and new foes come calling at Pembrooke Park, its secrets come to light. And with the arrival of the local parson's increasingly assistant, William Chapman, treasure to restore the Foster family fortunes is not all that Abigail hopes to find at Pembrooke Park...