Beverly Eiklin historiallisessa viihderomaanissa piilossa olleet salaisuudet ovat vaarassa paljastua, ja monenmoista vehkeilyä on tiedossa: The maid of Milan (Choc Lit Limited, 2014; ISBN 978-1-78189-128-5).
Kirja päähenkilö on nainen jonka herkkää olemusta on kaikin keinoin pyritty suojelemaan, mutta pinnan alla kuohuu eikä todellisuus ole aivan sitä miltä näyttää. Romaanissa on omaperäistä otetta, vaikka kovin pitkälle juoni ei jaksakaan kantaa.
Adelaide Leeson wants to prove herself worthy of her husband, a man of noble aspirations who married her when she was at her lowest ebb. Lord Tristan Leeson is a model of diplomacy and self-control, even curbing the fiery impulses of his youth to preserve the calm relations deemed essential by his mother-in-law to preserve his wife's health.
A visit from his boyhood friend, feted poet Lord James Dewhurst, author of the sensational Maid of Milan, persuades Tristan that leaving the countryside behind for a London season will be in everyone's interests. But as Tristan's political career rises and Adelaide revels in society's adulation, the secrets of the past are uncovered. And there's a high price to pay for a life of deception.
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