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Elizabeth’s Rake
Darcy Sister Trilogy, Book 3

by Emily Johnson

     

Elizabeth is the youngest of the Dancy sisters, and the only one still unmarried.  You can read about Victoria’s romance in The Fashionable Spy (also reviewed on this site) and Julia’s romance in Julia’s Spirit (Amazon US || UK).  Now it is Elizabeth’s turn, and she is currently living with her aunt and cousins in rural Surrey.  The Valentine’s Day ball approaches, and who is getting an invitation because he is in the area visiting his sick father?  None other than the man who loved to tease Elizabeth back when she was living in London: Lord David Leighton.  She is prepared for more of the same, but when he comes through her bedroom window at night—she shoots him!

This final part of the trilogy sees Elizabeth putting her spying skills to the test to discover who or what is making David’s father so ill—can somebody be trying to poison him, and who?  This adds an extra dimension to what is already another very enjoyable story, and it gives a good idea of what life must have been like in one of the great country houses during this era.  As always with Ms Johnson (aka Emily Hendrickson), you can expect a thorough underpinning of sound historical knowledge, enabling the happy reader to lose herself in the Regency period.  Entertaining and enjoyable as usual.

The Book

Robert Hale
30 September 2009
Hardback
070908627X / 9780709086277
Historical Romance / Regency / Surrey, England
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Excerpt
NOTE: Valentine’s Day

The Reviewer

Rachel A Hyde
Reviewed 2009
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