Napoleon was considered a brilliant military strategist, so it was no surprise when I discovered that The Art of War had been translated into French. In To Redeem an Earl, you might recall Sophia’s advice to Lily to improve her French so that she might study and apply Sun Tzu’s strategies to the marriage mart of London.
Sophia was well familiar with the general’s rules of battle, but Lily is still a novice in her story. She applies them energetically, but not always with finesse, which leads to some awkward situations.
By the Regency, there were just over three hundred coroners serving all of England. They were always educated men of property, and it helped if they had money and political connections to get appointed or elected.
One imagines a certain amount of cherry-picking of cases by the coroner for the assigned area, considering the workloads. And there would be a variety of reasons a man would seek the office in the first place, which leads us to Grimes and his political aspirations. Fortunately, Lily was there to thwart the ambitious coroner’s campaign to raise his status by landing a peer in prison.
Now that Lily and Brendan have secured their household, Aidan Abbott is going to feel the pinch of culpability when danger continues to stalk Ridley House. Making it his mission to find the killer, a certain Miss Smythe is going to find herself in his arms at exactly the wrong moment, provoking a high society scandal.
When Aidan is forced to marry into the family he is investigating to protect his sister, is there any chance for these newlyweds to find a path to happiness? Or will Aidan’s secrets ruin their love before it starts? Find out in Moonlight Encounter, the next chapter of Inconvenient Scandals!