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Once marry to England’s many scandalous hypocrite . . .
Lady Evelyn Renshaw can omit thedisgrace her former father has broughtdown on her. She can even disregardthe accusations. But when her lifeis threatened since of his actions, sherealizes a unbending top mouth won’t be enoughto keep her safe. So she hires a newfootman absolute adequate to strengthen her . . .only to find herself shamelessly intoxicatedby his monumental masculinity.
Captain Sinjon Rutherford is no servant . . .but there are those who trust him a traitor.The usually approach to infer his ignorance isby personification a partial of superb Lady Evelyn’sservant in sequence to penetrate her homeand expose a law about her suspiciousrelations. Yet what seems during initial an easydeception is anything but, once he meets hisalluring new employer and discovers justhow tantalizing a lady in assign can be . . .
Because infrequently passionhides in plain sight.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #63448 in eBooks
- Published on: 2011-12-27
- Released on: 2011-12-27
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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“Lecia Cornwall has delivered a story that is certain to make your heart bruise with all a twists and turns, lies and cleverness, risk and amour along with a adore and captivate so clever it roughly only out during you.” (Rogues Under The Covers )
This Regency intrigue from fledgling author Cornwall (Secrets of a Proper Countess) is ideal for a holiday season. ... Sure to ring in a Christmas hearten for fans of Regency intrigue (Library Journal on ALL THE PLEASURES OF THE SEASON )
About a Author
Lecia Cornwall lives and writes in Calgary, Canada, amid a pleasing foothills of a Canadian Rockies, with 4 cats, dual teenagers, a crazy chocolate Lab, and one really studious husband. She is tough during work on her subsequent book.
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2 of 2 people found a following examination helpful.
By bookworm2bookworm
This story is a supplement to Ms. Cornwall's opening novel SECRETS OF A PROPER COUNTESS in that a delegate impression of Lady Evelyn Renshaw was pivotal to that story. You don't indispensably need to examination a initial to suffer a second. The book can be examination as a standalone, though I'm one of those people that usually can't pass adult a good examination so we acquire a event to bond to a characters better, to suffer their behind story and watch them solemnly come to their own.
In a final book, Evelyn's father is conspicuous a hypocrite to his nation and he soon disappears, withdrawal Evelyn to his flaw and in hapless need of insurance from his enemies, a Crown and from her possess family. Seven months is a prolonged time to be critical in a limbo, not meaningful if you're still a mother or a widow. She is being watched in tip and in plain sight, and all this amour is finally commencement to wear her spirits down and a fear is solemnly shutting her inside of her home.
One early morning she decides to try out for a float in Hyde Park, not wanting to confront anyone, meaningful if she did she would be shunned and despised for her husband's actions, and while roving she is confronted by a male who claims is sent by Napoleon to collect a `Gonfalon de Charlemagne' that is a ensign that her father has and he is perfectionist she lapse it to him.
Out of a obscurity comes another rider, looking like a loyal warrior, and in a routine of rescuing her, he gets shot.
Captain Sinjon Rutherford, third son of a Earl of Hallivell, is behind in England and looking for a male that can save him from a noose. On his approach to quarrel a duel with a male that is a means of all his troubles, he can't assistance though offer assistance to a Damsel in trouble and for his flattery is rewarded by a graze of a bullet in his sward arm!
To tip off this hapless incident, he gets arrested and taken in for doubt by Adam De Courcey, Earl of Westlake and who knows accurately for what purpose Sinjon is in London. In sequence to save himself, Adam offers him a understanding he can't refuse.
If he doesn't do as systematic by Adam, he will hang, so he agrees to be `employed' by Evelyn as her menial in sequence to view on her and collect a ensign that is a fable and a pitch to a French, and if a ensign is to tumble into their hands, their soldiers will be underneath a arrogance that nothing, no bullets or muskets can harm them. The intent is rarely sought out for that reason alone and England would like to posses it and keep it out of France. As Phillip was a final one to have it, it stands to reason that it still competence be somewhere in his house, and Evelyn competence or competence not be wakeful of it, so Sinjon agrees to this arrangement, though doesn't feel most unapproachable of it.
First, we desired Ms. Cornwall's debut, and we was looking brazen to this supplement and she didn't defect me with Evelyn's story.
The characterization of Evelyn was right on! This was a lady that did all right and proper; she walled off her feelings and authorised usually a façade to be seen and for it, she got mistreated by a society, her family and her husband. Everyone took her for postulated and suspicion to run roughshod over her. It was fascinating to watch her solemnly come to a fulfilment that she could never greatfully them no matter how she acts, and to see her benefit her strength and lax a fear. we was ecstatic to watch her tumble in adore with her `footman' and brave a manners that a multitude put on them. we also felt contemptible for Sinjon who intentionally deceives her, though is usually ripped adult about it and by a time he means to come purify with his deception, a whole thing unravels and starts to pulp all around him.
Ms. Cornwell had each component lonesome in this story. Her heroine was injured though heartwarming; her favourite clever nonetheless his courtesy and proposal feelings for Evelyn uncover him to be a male with clarity and clever sensuality. While he kept holding behind his loyal temperament from her, it didn't stop him from wondering if she'd caring to hear it. It mattered and proof himself trusting of a charges brought opposite him became critical to him. Especially when confronted with a fact that Evelyn was tighten to and had trust in Lord Creighton, his prosecution and a male who indeed committed all those dishonourable deeds he was being blamed for.
Watching a law come out, and Sinjon and Evelyn come together was intensely engaging and fun.
The tract was intriguing and kept me reading and guessing from page to page. The villains were infamous and cruel, so most so that it evoked a few growls from me!
This story was discerning paced and entertaining. The delegate characters were 3 dimensional and unequivocally most noted and all ideally tuned in while rarely interesting. Evelyn's sisters, Eloisa and Charlotte, gave me copiousness of laugh-out-loud moments. She even gave us comedy of errors so humorous that we had tears in my eyes while laughing!
I am unequivocally proposal with Ms. Cornwall's essay voice, her plotting and characterization, smart discourse and prose. Both books kept my seductiveness with these elements that are rarely compulsory for my reading pleasure.
If you're looking for a beautifully combined adore story filled with unequivocally good grown characters who will keep we entertained, afterwards demeanour no further. Everything in this story fits together unequivocally good and a amour will have we wanting a `footman' of your own. I'm unapproachable to suggest it and give it my 5 quills!
Melanie
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2 of 2 people found a following examination helpful.
By Jen
Evelyn has turn a amicable renegade given her father Phillip went blank amidst allegations of treason. The group and women of a ton wheeze that she might have been complicit in her husband's misdeeds. She's constantly being watched, both by her peers and even a crown... for some pointer that she has finished wrong or that she might know where Phillip is hiding.
Sinjon is a depressed army captain, indicted of crimes he didn't commit. He's an honest man: he even saves Evelyn from attack one morning in a park. Shortly after, an representative of a climax agrees to assistance him infer his innocence, if Sin agrees to penetrate Evelyn's home as a spy. He poses as a menial to benefit entrance, though it's a onslaught for her to see her one time favourite as a servant. The dual solemnly start a friendship, that blossoms into an affair.
It takes awhile for things to feverishness adult between Sin and Evelyn. But when these dual are together, a book is during a best. Unfortunately, Sin's deceptions hang over their attribute like a Sword of Damocles from a unequivocally commencement of a book. We have to wait and watch for a unavoidable impulse it will drop, and destroy what they have created. we favourite a component of a category disproportion between them --and a moments Sin stands as Evelyn's brave guardian and confidante were warming. But a course of their attribute was a small some-more predicted than we would like.
The outmost conflicts, centering on Phillip's disappearance, a blank artifact, and a male who framed Sin, kept a story relocating along sincerely well. But zero unequivocally knocked my hosiery off. It was a flattering customary Regency romance. 3 1/2 stars.
2 of 2 people found a following examination helpful.
By Harriet Klausner
Lady Evelyn Renshaw is underneath a form of residence detain in that she can usually try outward during a time in that duelists, their seconds and French agents are a solitary people roaming a streets. The Ton cursed her ever given her father Lord Phillip dead 7 months ago when he was indicted of fraud by a Crown; ironically Napoleon has indicted Phillip of theft. Her each pierce means notice and no shun from London as a Crown's operatives wish Phillip will revisit his wife. In annoy of receiving a Ton's claws, she knows zero about either her father lives or his factious activities; afterwards again a variable elite does not caring preferring her as a liaison of choice.
On his approach to a duel, Captain Sinjon Rutherford intercedes when a Napoleonic user assaults her claiming his czar wants what her associate stole from him. Sinjon's prerogative is to have a English tip use charity him a jail dungeon or or espionage on Evelyn. Thus he becomes Sam a menial in her household. He protects her from a determined torpedo as they tumble in love.
The second Crown Regency espionage amour (see Secrets of a Proper Countess) is a glorious chronological starring a beleaguered protagonist whose ignorance does not matter to a Ton or a English government. For that matter a supervision diagnosis of Sinjon is identical to that of his dear as both are unessential pawns in a fight of amour with Napoleon and his agents. Readers will conclude this superb early nineteenth century novel, as everybody asks where in a universe Phillip is.
Harriet Klausner
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