Blake Montague has a great deal to offer the war effort, if
he could only get his hands on more of Napoleon's secret
code. The only sure way he can find is to join the war
effort at a level that will allow him access to enemy
dispatches, but as an impoverished second son of a Baron, he
hasn't enough money to buy his colors. The solution seems
clear; marry a woman with enough dowry to pay his way,
hopefully someone who won't mind seeing the back of him as
he heads off to war.
Jocelyn Carrington has waited patiently for this moment. She
is about to inherit money held in trust, hopefully enough
for her to make a haven for her family. Her younger brother
is not comfortable with people, hiding away his brilliant
mind among his collection of pet birds, unable to make his
way as a man in the world. Her mother has a similar ailment
that kept her at the mercy of her husband, and now suffers
the whims of her eldest son and the vicious tongue of her
daughter-in-law. Jocelyn will soon have the means to bring
her mother and brother under her protection regardless of
the power her eldest brother wields. Things would be easier
should she find some kind, malleable man to become her
husband, one who would not mind an eccentric family, or
better yet, would absent himself to London leaving Jocelyn
to rebuild her life.
Patricia Rice has long been one of my favorite authors. Her
ability to wind the absurd throughout her romances while
never diminishing the very real challenges her characters
face charms me every time. I am always caught by the very
first sentence and am almost unable to put one of her books
down until the final page, and always with a sense of
sadness that the book is over. THE DEVILISH MONTAGUE is the
second in the Rebellious Sons series, following The
Wicked Wyckerly.
All Blake Montague wants is to save Europe from a tyrant.
But as the penniless youngest son of a baron, he needs a
marriage of convenience to provide the money he requires for
a military commission. Then he meets a blond beauty who can
fulfill all his needs-especially those satisfied by a wife...
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