The Earl of Hawthorne has been prodded to purchase a house
right around the corner from his mansion, 5 Upper Seymour
Street. It can become a secure place for discreet affairs.
The Earl has the reputation of being the best rube in town.
He has bedded just about every woman that he can.
He encounters Lady Keighley, who has just lost her husband.
In conversations with her, he finds that she has desires to
be a mistress and no man's wife. Anne, Lady Hawthorne, has a
great friend who needs a place to stay, so she has set her
up to live at 5 Upper Seymour Street. Fliss, her friend,
wants to be a single woman who can manage her inherited
mill, after being rejected by the family of the man that she
loved because she had no nobility. Georgiana comes charging
into Earl Hawthorne's life as a
ward he was not aware of. She wishes to become a mistress
so that she can acquire jewels, furs and travel.
This book is written well and is very fun to read. These
ladies are probably not the norm for ladies of the
Victorian age. There are some very serious women who know
what they want and go after it, no matter what it takes.
These were some fun characters with a lot of life.
When the handsome rakish Earl of Hawthorne buys the charming
house across the back garden from his town home, he never
expects the lovely lady he installs there to ensnare him
completely.
Again and again...
After Lady Anne Keighley marries the earl, it seems a shame
to leave the house empty, so she offers it to her childhood
friend Felicity Mercer, who discovers that the earl's
gorgeous cousin is precisely the man she's been waiting for...
Finally, feisty Georgiana Baxter moves into the house to
escape an arrange marriage, and encounters the earl's friend
Lord Julian Silsby late one night in the back garden. The
handsome soldier is more than willing to give her the
lessons she asks for...
The house's ownership, proximity to the earl's townhouse and
the beauty of its successive inhabitants leads to plenty of
gossip, scandal and torrid speculation, while behind closed
doors, passions blaze.
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