Gather Ye Rosebuds by Joan Smith

Pleasant read. Still nothing really grand. I feel like I shouldn't complain because I don't hate these Joan Smith books (which I can't say for most of the ones previously read). I just want them to be more in depth and be not quite so light and fast of reading. Did she go down hill after writing "Aunt Sophie's Diamonds"?

She had yet to meet a man she preferred to a paintbrush. Finding art far more satisfying than romance, Zoie had ceased think of marriage and decided to devote her life to her first love-painting. However, while happily arranging her new studio, she discovered a valuable stolen necklace secreted in her late uncle's belongings-and made the mistake of trying to return it to the rightful owner.

Trying to sneak the necklace back, Zoie was caught in the act by a suspicious Lord Weylin, who was not about to let the matter drop-especially when the necklace proved fake. Clearly there was a deeper mystery to be solved. And then there was Weylin himself, whose disturbing interest invited an artist's most scandalous designs....