Feuding families and love!

These Violet Delights: A Novel by Madeleine Roux     

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Violet Arden has always seen things differently. Her heart and mind follow the siren’s call of creativity. Unfortunately her aspirations as an artist hit rock bottom when she’s publicly confronted at an exhibition in Mayfair by the fiancée of three years of her French mentor, Renaud Moncelle. The same Renaud who’d spun lures about marrying her. Not only that, Violet overhears a derogatory comment by a gentleman about her displayed painting. 

That gentleman was Alasdair Kerr, a neighbour near her home.

All is enough to send Violet back to Warwickshire. An important female artist, Cristabel Bilbury, joins her to continue her instruction. Here Violet again meets Alasdair. He recognizes a fellow thinker in Violet but will that be enough? There’s a history between the Kerr’s and the Richmond’s / Arden’s. 

That history is going to play out in dangerous ways.

A fascinating regency tale woven around the ideas of art, feuding between families, dark deeds, and burgeoning love.

A Ballantine ARC via NetGalley.                                              

Many thanks to the author and publisher.