When the party arrive under her roof, Elissande sees her chance of escape – the handsome Lord Vere would make an ideal husband and as a Marquise, he could protect her from her abusive Uncle. He is absent at the time, but his wife, almost an invalid and his niece, Ellisande are in residence and so an assortment of people beg some hospitality from Elissandre so that Vere can investigate what he needs to.Įlissande has been raised by her Uncle, an impossibly cruel man, and her Aunt, who is so frightened and cowed by her husband that she resorts to laudanum just to get through each day. His latest assignment is investigating the owner of some South African diamond mines and in order to do this and he and his ‘colleague’ for want of a better term, need to wrangle their way under the gentleman’s roof. Even his title and vast fortune has never tempted a debutante to take the plunge and actually marry him, although as part of his cover, Lord Vere has proposed numerous times to plenty of eligible young ladies only to be turned down every single time. Whilst in public he keeps up a complicated facade, chattering and babbling inanely, tripping over everything and anything, spilling his food on himself and generally acting like his IQ is a single digit. For the last ten or twelve years, his cover has been that since a horse riding accident as a teenager, he sustained brain damage that has made him a borderline idiot.
Lord Vere, a Marquise, is an agent working for the Crown. I’ve also heard some pretty good things about the author so I went into reading it feeling pretty hopeful and positive that I was getting an enjoyable, good read.
I heard a few people on Twitter talking about this one and it seemed interesting and a bit different so I thought that I’d give it a go.
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