“Of all the types of men she had learned to manage, the ‘ignorant yet self-important’ type was not exactly the most challenging.
When an intelligent but impoverished woman is accepted into Oxford’s first class of female students, she must juggle a spectrum of challenges, but nothing prepares her for the attractive and intimidating Duke of Montgomery. For the uninitiated, beware: the purple prose is only a few footsteps away from high camp. After some undercover investigations (Ambrose and Concordia are now working as a team, which may indicate sequels to come), a few murders and explanations all around, Ambrose and Concordia consummate their relationship amid the ferns in the conservatory.įor fans of Quick, certainly another pleaser as romance and murder and silk flounces abound. This makes Ambrose mysterious and disciplined. Stoner (whose house he lives in, whose heir he is), Ambrose spent years in Asia studying the ancient ways of the Vanza from monks. Likewise, Ambrose comes from a long line of swindlers and as an orphaned teenager became a master burglar, skills he now uses as an investigator. A rumored sex-scandal at the commune has ruined Concordia’s reputation, and she must hide her past at all costs. This makes Concordia determined and worldly. Concordia is the illegitimate daughter of two radical free-thinkers, and was raised in their community of like-minded intellectuals. And they soon discover they have much in common. Indeed, ever since Ambrose first spied her “charmingly rounded derriere” on horseback, the two have been practicing the fine art of flirtation. Meanwhile, Ambrose and Concordia act on their passion. Ambrose brings Concordia and the girls back to his stately London manse for safe keeping-the crime lord behind the auction will stop at nothing-nothing!-to get the girls back. In a MacGyver-like move, Concordia blows up the castle and she and the girls escape, with the unexpected help of Ambrose Wells, a private inquiry agent brought to the castle for his own investigations. Hired to teach four orphans at a remote castle, Concordia soon discovers the mysterious benefactor’s nefarious plan: to auction off the young ladies to the highest bidder. In this Victorian-era mystery, freethinking governess Concordia Gale rescues her charges from certain ruin. And so goes another historical romance from the remarkably prolific Quick (aka Jayne Ann Krentz), author of equally numerous contemporary thrillers.
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