Face Down Before the Rebel Hooves: Kathy Lynn Emerson

Loved it! In this book Lady Appleton is drawn into investigating Sir Walter Pendennis' wife's murder. She goes to the rebel camp as Lady Pendennis to try to uncover what Lady Eleanor Pendennis was involved in and how it got her murdered. During her time undercover she is nearly murdered a few times, by arrow, by food poisoning and eventually a woman is murdered mistakenly for Susanna. Susanna learns the plot was to overthrow Queen Elizabeth and replace her with Mary, Queen of Scots. Now she is trying to be murdered by Eleanor's cousin because Eleanor stands in her way of inheritance. Susanna realizes it was the wives of the treasonous men that were responsible for the plot and she aids them in escaping because she pities them and their lack of freedom as women, she understands their lot.