Beauty and the Spy

A Lady in Search of her Family

Mag aus Berlin am 03.10.2010
Bewertungsnummer: 684237
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)

When Susannah Makepeace's father all of a sudden becomes the victim of cutthroats, her world is shattered in more than one way. Not only does she lose the only living, although not really close relative with her father's death, but she must find out that she is totally penniless and her social life, like she has known it for years, has come to an end as well. Even her fiancé Douglas leaves her. So she gladly accepts the invitation of a so far unknown aunt to live with her in the sleepy village of Barnstable. There certainly are a lot of alterations and adaptations to do, but they also provide a means to finally get to know herself and her talents better than in the social blur her life was before. And there are a lot of revelations about her ancestry still to detect, along with avoiding a constant threat to her life, where former spy and viscount Kit Whitelaw is eager to shelter and protect her as her knight, even without a shining armor or any clothes at all. And for Kit saving Susannah provides a means to finally uncover the machinations of a long hated enemy and traitor. Julie Anne Long delivers an entertaining love story full of suspense with amiable characters that soon draw the reader into their story and keep up suspense and interest till the end. (This comment refers to a pocket book edition of the book.)