"Lady Jayne Disappears" by Joanna Davidson Politano

Aurelie Harcourt grew up in debtor's prison with her storyteller father and no mother. She was the keeper of her father's greatest secret—that he was the famous serial novelist Nathaniel Droll. With his death, Aurelie is cast onto the care of family who didn't even know she was alive, and she determines that she will finish her father's last work and deliver it every week to the publisher as scheduled.

She knows his work, Lady Jayne Disappears, is about her mother. What happened to the real Lady Jayne? Why did she give Aurelie up? Is she dead or alive today? Aurelie keeps her secret about Nathaniel Droll close, faithfully scribbling at night and adding in new characters that coincide with the new people she is meeting.

As Aurelie gains friendships within the house, she soon becomes aware that Lady Jayne's secrets may be found in the very place where she now resides. But someone is intent that she never find out. Meanwhile, the public hunger to know the identity of Nathaniel Droll has increased due to recognizable places in his latest chapters, and Aurelie must keep that secret closer to heart than ever.

I quite enjoyed this story. Aurelie is a wonderful character with a pure, unpretentious heart. Her background is reminiscent of  Amy in Charles Dickens' Little Dorritt. Although the wrap-up of this novel is a little anticlimactic, there was much I enjoyed about the novel overall, and I heartily recommend it for fans of Gothic historical romance.