![]() (He deserved it.) Afterwards, she gives an impassioned speech about double standards and how he deserved it, and is quietly shunned. Boring, that is, until the garden party where she pushes her ducal brother-in-law into a fishpond. She is not engaging in a public and inappropriate flirtation. Sophie, on the other hand, hates London and the ton and the nonsense that the gossip mongers say and write about her sisters. They are all scandalous not so scandalous as to be shunned, but scandalous enough that they are not quite accepted. They have a blast going to parties and wearing fine clothes and skirting propriety and laughing about the nonsense written about them in the scandal sheets. ![]() Her mother and older sisters have taken to life in the ton, even if the ton hasn’t quite taken to them. Sophie, our heroine, is the youngest of five daughters in a family that was elevated to nobility ten years ago, due to her father’s fortune in coal mining. Overall: A really fun read, despite some of the “No YOU deserve better” nonsense that occurs. We all know what happens when you go to Scotland in Regency Smut.) And ends up going all the way to Cumbria. ![]() ![]() ![]() Plot: She needs a ride to Mayfair, so she stows away in his carriage. I can get behind this.Ĭharacter Chemistry: “We don’t even like each other!” ![]()
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