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heroine was a bit of a whore but I liked the count, Nice ending. Duchess draws you in slowly, so that you don't realize you are enthralled until you can't put the book down.
Josephine Edgar creates a heroine that you can admire and question at the same time, but you cannot forget.
Writing about an independent young woman living in England in the early's the events at the beginning take place a year after the Empress of Austria was assassinated, which was in, Edgar recreates this part of history masterfully.
From detailed descriptions of the styles to an honest portrayal of how women were viewed, the setting is authentic.
As are the circumstances our young heroine finds herself in,

Viola and her friend Betsy escape to London after Viola enjoys an inappropriate friendship with her employer.
The man is honorable and sends her on her way with good references, so their employment and housing is secured.
London, however, is not as forgiving to a young impetuous woman like Viola as the countryside was, She soon finds herself surrounded by suitors, and not all have her best interests at heart, She has eyes for only one man, however, a man much above her station, and her friend Betsy worries that it will be the ruin of them all.


Edgar focuses her story on Viola, but she does not ignore the impact that Viola's desires and actions have on the other characters.
Viola is impetuous, but she is also kind and generous, and not particularly cruel, so you are able to sympathize with her plights which seem to be one after the other without believing her entirely deserving of them.
She is not a helpless victim, but rather a strong young woman who faces life head on with a spirit that carries her through.
It is not hard to hope she can find happiness in the end, because

she doesn't try to rob anyone else of their happiness.
Not as good as I expected, It's more like a plain dull story, not romantic, suspense or anything you can describe as the genre of it.
Mary Edgar Mussi aka sitelink Mary HowardMary Edgar was born onDecemberin London, England, UK, daughter of Jenny Howard and George Edgar, an author.
She was educated privately. OnMarch, she married Rudolph F, Mussi, they had one son, Max, and one daughter, Susan Jane, She was a past chairwoman of Society of Women Writers and Journalists, She started writing contemporary romance novels as Mary Howard in, later she used the penname of Josephine Edgar to sign her gothic historical romances.
She was the recipient of the Romantic Novelists Association award in,,, and Elinor Glyn award in, She passed away onMarch, Mary Edgar Mussi aka sitelink Mary HowardMary Edgar was born onDecemberin London, England, UK, daughter of Jenny Howard and George Edgar, an author.
She was educated privately. OnMarch, she married Rudolph F, Mussi, they had one son, Max, and one daughter, Susan Jane, She was a past chairwoman of Society of Women Writers and Journalists, She started writing contemporary romance novels as Mary Howard in, later she used the penname of Josephine Edgar to sign her gothic historical romances.
She was the recipient of the Romantic Novelists' Association award in,,, and Elinor Glyn award in, She passed away onMarch, sitelink.