Mistress

by Amanda Quick

[wyvernfriend]

Features the usual pre-20th Century vaguely Victorian era that many historical novels and a headstrong female lead who is determined not to be tethered to someone who will make her less.
Ipiginia [I'm probably going to muck it up at some stage and write Ipigenia as is more common and the spelling did leap out at me throughout.] is trying to help her Aunt Zoe who is being blackmailed; she's posing as the mistress of the Earl of Masters, a man the blackmailer claims he has killed.
Only he isn't dead and his curiousity is aroused by this woman, so he investigates and finds more to her than he first thought.
It's funny and fun and enjoyable and I was sucked in throughout.