The first three books of this series were published by Berkeley and, I'm guessing, the contract was not renewed for the fourth (this book) and the author went the self-publishing route. This made me nervous because my experience with self published books has not been overall positive. But I wanted to see what happened between Georgia and the Duke of Blackford.
The good news is that this was a really professionally edited text with obvious care taken with proofreading. The story was tight and ran smoothly. The bad news is that the plotting itself was weak; not only was the killer obvious but Georgia never had a clue and nobody in their right mind could have missed at least considering the character as a suspect, something the Georgia failed to do and then acted poleaxed when someone suggested it. I was left going "oh come ON!".
But the author does wrap up all the character side-stories, I got to find out what happened between Blackford and Georgia and the overall series arc with the evil nemesis (meh) was all tied up with a bow. It was a nice read and I'm thankful the author took the chance to self publish and give her readers a happy ending.