Heirs and graces - Rhys Bowen

As thirty-fifth in line
for the throne, Lady Georgiana Rannoch may not be the most
sophisticated young woman, but she knows her table manners. It's forks
on the left, knives on the right, not in His Majesty's back.

Here
I am thinking the education I received at my posh Swiss finishing
school would never come in handy. And while it hasn't landed me a job,
or a husband, it has convinced Her Majesty the Queen, and the Dowager
Duchess to enlist my help. I have been entrusted with grooming Jack
Altringham, the Duke's newly discovered heir fresh from the Outback of
Australia, for high society.

The upside is I am to live in luxury
at one of England's most gorgeous stately homes. But upon arrival at
Kingsdowne Place, my dearest Darcy has been sent to fetch Jack, leaving
me stuck in a manor full of miscreants, none of whom are too pleased
with the discovery of my new ward.

And no sooner has the lad been
retrieved than the Duke announces he wants to choose his own heir. With
the house in a hubbub over the news, Jack's hunting knife somehow finds
its way into the Duke's back. Eyes fall, backs turn, and fingers point
to the young heir. As if the rascal wasn't enough of a handful, now he's
suspected of murder. Jack may be wild, but I'd bet the crown jewels it
wasn't he who killed the Duke