![]() ![]() ![]() Moreover, he’s presumably a Tory, embodying everything that radical Cornelia loathes. ![]() When Rafe knocks on Cornelia’s door after 20 years apart, Cornelia perceives him as an unwelcome reminder of monogamy’s strictures. Only one man knows that her flight was built on an (extremely implausible) Gretna Green elopement-Rafe Goodwood, her white groom, now elevated to Rosemere’s dukedom by a string of Spinal Tap–worthy fatal mischances befalling all other possible heirs. Mixed-race orphan Cornelia was raised as the Duke of Rosemere’s ward until she was compromised at 18 and fled a forced marriage for Italy to build an art career. Peckham joyfully revisits the society-flouting women of Regency England’s Society of Sirens, moving away from the heavy gothic tone of the first installment, The Rakess, to introduce portraitist Cornelia Ludgate. ![]()
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