Lady Preshea Villentia is a highly trained spy and assassin and also a widow 4 times over which has earned her the nickname "The Mourning Star". She is now set up to live her life as she pleases, being no longer under any obligation to anyone but when Lord Akledama invites her to a secret meeting, she realizes she is bored and the task of keeping a Duke safe while under the guise of working for him to break up the relationship between his daughter and an unsuitable suitor seems like just the thing. She wasn't counting on a Scottish soldier to truly enliven things for her.
Set in the world of Ms. Carriger's Parasol Protectorate and Finishing School series, Preshea is a character from the Finishing School who always said that she was more interested in murdering her husbands than cohabiting nicely with them. It seems that what she really needed was someone who knew her worth and was content with any affection she choose to show him. The courtship was sweet and the book a fun, fluffy read.
Page count: 150p/20,817p ytd/269,967p lifetime
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