When out-of-work actress Derry O'Donnell moonlights as celebrity fortune-teller Madam Tulip in an English Stately home, she's trying to make some cash.Instead, she is drawn into an alien world of wealth, titled privilege and family secrets. A countess once a chorus girl, a gambling earl and his daughters, a cultured and handsome art expert--all caught in a terrifying web of ghastly threats, murder and abduction. As an aristocratic engagement party turns into a nightmare, Derry and her friend Bruce face the prospect of a gruesome and infamous death. Madame Tulip and the Knave of Hearts is the second in a series of thrilling and hilarious Tulip adventures in which Derry O'Donnell, celebrity fortune-teller andr eluctant amateur detective, plays the most exciting and perilous roles of her acting life, drinks borage tea, and fails to understand her parents.