High drama indeed!
Firstly bother! This was such a great read I’m going to have to add the first in the series to my already teetering TBR pile!
Lady Augusta Colebrook and Lady Julia, her twin sister had previously enacted the rescue of Lady Hester Belford (along with Harriet’s convict brother Lord Evan Belford and Bow Street runner Mr. Michael Kent) from an asylum where she’d been incarcerated and treated dreadfully. She’d been placed there by her brother Lord Deere who’d inherited the earldom when his older brother was sentenced. Hester had refused to give up her relationship with Miss Grant and marry as the new Earl saw fit.
Lady Augusta already has a somewhat troubled relationship with her brother Lord Duffield, who keeps trying to make her moderate her behavior into what he sees as more suitable.
Now Gus is totally focused on getting Hester to safety and proving Evan’s innocent of murder.
Their lead is a club call Exalted Brethren of Rack and Ruin. There they discover truly heinous happenings.
Put that together with a menacing, renegade thief taker being after them, Hester’s brother also in hot pursuit, Gus and Julie becoming more involved, and we have a fast paced, dangerous regency read that left me wanting more on the shores of a smuggling community!
A Berkley Group ARC via NetGalley.
Many thanks to the author and publisher.
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