Note to one Shadrack Gumpfile from his sometimes employer, Sam Clemens at the Teatime Tattler
Sparky,
Drop what you’re doing lurking around in Hamstead. I have a better job for you. Turn your tail around and head for Oxford.
We’re getting a whiff of something juicy out of there. Some woman has been causing talk by pretending to be a scholar. She’s irritated some fellows, tried to gain entry to the library (as if they’d let a woman in), and had an altercation with a high class book seller.
Now we’ve heard rumors she isn’t at all what she should be and is carrying on with a local man just back from the late war. What makes it good press is the woman in question is none other than the daughter of the Duke of Sudbury. Sudbury! As high a stickler as they come.
This one should be easy. Hang out in the pubs and seamier establishments. Students have notoriously loose mouths and should spill what they know, what they guess, and the worst possible interpretations.
But move quickly. The woman’s brother is the Marquess of Glenaire who will come down on us like a hammer if he finds out. We need to get the article out there before he does.
Sam
About the Book: A Lady’s Honor
She may be skirting scandal in the opinion of some, but Lady Georgiana has her own code of Honor
A little Greek is one thing; the art of love is another. Only one man ever tried to teach Lady Georgiana Hayden both. She learned painfully, a young age to keep her heart safe. She learned to keep loneliness at bay through work. If it takes a scandalous affair to teach her what she needs to complete her work, she will risk it. If the man in question chooses not to teach her, she will use any means at her disposal to change his mind. She is determined to give voice to the ancient women whose poetry has long been neglected.
Some scars cut deeper than others. Major Andrew Mallet returns to Cambridge a battle scarred hero. He dared to love Georgiana once and suffered swift retribution from her powerful family. The encounter cost him eleven years of his life. Determined to avoid her, he seeks work to heal his soul and make his scholar father proud. The work she offers risks his career, his peace of mind, and (worst of all) his heart. Can he protect himself from a woman who almost destroyed him? Does he want to?
Even poetry, with its musical lyrics and sensual traps, is dangerous when you partner with the love of your life. In Regency Cambridge it can lead a lady quickly past improper to positively scandalous.
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About the Series
Honor at Heart follows an intertwined group of characters, family and friends, in their path to adventure, honor, and above all love.
About the Author
Caroline Warfield – Authorr
Award winning author, Caroline Warfield, grew up in a peripatetic army family, and the need to travel never left her. After a varied career (largely around libraries and technology) she retired to the urban wilds of eastern Pennsylvania to be closer to family and to write. She remains a traveler and adventurer, enamored of owls, books, history, and beautiful gardens (but not the act of gardening).
Caroline calls her books family-centered romance, and this one is no exception. Family makes her characters what they are, for better or worse. She takes them as they are, scarred and wounded, and sets them on their path to their own happily ever after, because love is worth the risk.
Soli Deo Gloria
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I’m writing to tell you our papa has overcome the Fever he suffered. You don’t need to travel home, the roads being unpleasant this time of year, and you so far up north. My Edward continues to managing the drapery with the old man ill. While I shudder to be blunt, the business prospers under his care, no matter what you might have heard from Papa who, as I’ve written is becoming queer in his old age.
