Alys Weston secretly writes Gothic novels, while her widowed father drinks away her tiny inheritance. After a disillusioning early encounter with the rakish Lord Rayven in Harrogate - in which he came off the worst - she is quite resigned to being a spinster. Several years later, she meets him again in London and he makes it clear that he has not forgotten her - indeed, he dogs her footsteps. But is it for revenge, or some other reason? Is he the hero or the villain of the piece? As Alys becomes unwittingly embroiled in the dark and dangerous rites of a hell-fire club, her very life could hang on the answer...
Alys Weston has taken care of her widowed father for years. Yearning for a life outside the confines of her family home. She gets an opportunity when her vaguely disreputable and overweight aunt offers her a chance to pay a visit with her to Harrogate (to take the waters of course). She encounters Lord Rayven and he fares worst from the encounter.
She returns to her life with her father, resigned to spinsterhood until her father dies and her cousin marries a woman determined to see the back of her. When she moves to London, having had some success with writing, she finds herself attracted again to Lord Rayven. However there's something going on that involves something her mother took from her family. Something that Lord Rayven is also interested in. Can she trust him?
It's a fun read, I really enjoyed the characters and would love to read more in this world, the vague hints of secret societies intrigued me.
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10 August, 2009:
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