A Necessary Deception
October 18th, 2011. Filed under: Tuesday's Tempting Reads.Who Can a Lady Really Trust?
A young widow, a mysterious Frenchman, and the threat of
blackmail keep readers guessing in this Regency romance
Grand Rapids, Mich. – Laurie Alice Eakes captures the hearts of her readers once again by weaving intrigue, suspense, and romance together in her new novel, A Necessary Deception (ISBN: 978-0-8007-3466-4, $14.99, October, 352 pages), set during the Regency time period. When young widow Lady Lydia Gale helps a French prisoner obtain parole, she never expected doing so would put her family in jeopardy. But that’s just what happens when a shadowy figure corners her during an evening stroll and blackmails her with the threat of treason.
She returns to her family just as the London Season is getting underway, and is shocked when the French prisoner appears in her parlor calling himself by a new name, Christien de Meuse, and carrying a letter from the shadowy man.
While she should be helping her younger sisters, bookish Cassandra, who’s about to get married, and headstrong Honore, who’s about to enter into London society, Lydia can’t help being preoccupied with the mysterious Frenchman. Nor can she deny her attraction to him. Is he a spy or a suitor? Can he be trusted? Is she putting her family in danger or sparing them from harm?
With an eye for detail and in-depth knowledge of the period, Laurie Alice Eakes brings alive the drawing rooms of London’s elite .
ISLAND BREEZES
Who is this man? Who are those men? Who is Elias Lang? What is Lydia going to do about all these men and who can she trust?
Lady Lydia’s mother and father pretty much puts the care of her younger sisters in Lydia’s hands. One is engaged and the other is an outrageous flirt. And what a handful trying to get them settled down!
This adventure takes you to London during the Season. All the while, Lydia is trying to run herd on her sisters, she also finds she must deal with intrigue and danger.
It’s very easy to get caught up in this book. You’ll definitely be looking forward to the next in The Daughters of Bainbridge House series. I know I am.
***Thanks to Donna Hausler for providing a review copy.***
Laurie Alice Eakes is also the author of Lady in the Mist and several other novels. She won a National Readers Choice Award for Best Regency in 2007 for Family Guardian. Laurie Alice writes full-time from her home in Texas, where she lives with her husband and sundry dogs and cats.
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Available October 2011 at your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group