Widow's Wake is the last of three in The Sisters' Saga, which tells of three sisters and the compromises they must make to reconcile love's delusions with the demands of reality. Recently widowed for the second time, Lady Henrietta Wood's funds fall well short of her preferred lifestyle. In 1847, she sets sail from Sydney to London, intent on wresting a higher pension from the Colonial Office. Her leverage is a set of secret documents of great...