AustLit

'Miss Matilda Hayward has a wedding to plan and while ordering her bridal bouquet in Bridal Lane, she finds a note in her sample bouquet requesting a liaison. Matilda innocently believes the note is a mix-up and now two people in love might believe the other person has abandoned them. She engages her brother, Daniel, to attend the liaison with her and to advise of the mix-up, but the young paramour rushes off and is later found beaten and bruised in a lane off Bridal Alley by Matilda's fiance, Detective Thomas Ashdown, and his partner, Detective Harry Dart.

'When a respected lacemaker is also found murdered in the same laneway, the note takes on a new significance. Matilda is assigned to write the obituary for the Women's Journal with her illustrator friend, Miss Georgina Urry. It is not long until she finds herself in danger and in the middle of a mystery and a murder case, much to her fiance's displeasure. There is mystery, danger, and love afoot before Matilda makes it to the altar!' (Publication summary)