![]() ![]() Then there’s the urgent requirement to marry off Arabella, for whom spinsterhood looms. ![]() Christopher, meanwhile, is being blackmailed by another guest with his dead wife’s correspondence. She’s using the party to stalk Christopher and investigate a murder-as, for other reasons, is Freya’s childhood friend Messalina Greycourt. On their behalf, she has disguised herself as a dowdy companion to gentlewoman Arabella, covertly promoting feminist causes. Freya became a member of the covenlike Wise Women. Christopher Renshaw, Duke of Harlowe, was best friends with Freya Stewart de Moray’s older brother, Ran, until a melee left Ran’s fiancée dead, Ran mutilated, Christopher banished, and Freya swearing vengeance on him. It opens with a rousing chase, but that’s deceptive: matters proceed sluggishly among four plot lines and three perspectives. Hoyt (the Maiden Lane series) falters with this historical trilogy launch set at an English house party in 1760. ![]()
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