The Lady By His Side

Name: The Lady By His Side
Rating: 4.6875 (32 reviews)

Stephanie Laurens

март 2017 г. · Savdek Management Proprietary Limited

4,7

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A marquess in need of the right bride. An earl’s daughter in search of a purpose. A betrayal that ends in murder and balloons into a threat to the realm.

Sebastian Cynster knows time is running out. If he doesn’t choose a wife soon, his female relatives will line up to assist him. Yet the current debutantes do not appeal. Where is he to find the right lady to be his marchioness? Then Drake Varisey, eldest son of the Duke of Wolverstone, asks for Sebastian’s aid.

Having assumed his father’s mantle in protecting queen and country, Drake must go to Ireland in pursuit of a dangerous plot. But he’s received an urgent missive from Lord Ennis, an Irish peer—Ennis has heard something Drake needs to know. Ennis insists Drake attends an upcoming house party at Ennis’s Kent estate so Ennis can reveal his information face-to-face.

Sebastian has assisted Drake before and, long ago, had a liaison with Lady Ennis. Drake insists Sebastian is just the man to be Drake’s surrogate at the house party—the guests will imagine all manner of possibilities and be blind to Sebastian’s true purpose.

Unsurprisingly, Sebastian is reluctant, but Drake’s need is real. With only more debutantes on his horizon, Sebastian allows himself to be persuaded.

His first task is to inveigle Antonia Rawlings, a lady he has known all her life, to include him as her escort to the house party. Although he’s seen little of Antonia in recent years, Sebastian is confident of gaining her support.

Eldest daughter of the Earl of Chillingworth, Antonia has abandoned the search for a husband and plans to use the week of the house party to decide what to do with her life. There has to be some purpose, some role, she can claim for her own.

Consequently, on hearing Sebastian’s request and an explanation of what lies behind it, she seizes on the call to action. Suppressing her senses’ idiotic reaction to Sebastian’s nearness, she agrees to be his partner-in-intrigue.

But while joining the house party proves easy, the gathering is thrown into chaos when Lord Ennis is murdered—just before he was to speak with Sebastian. Worse, Ennis’s last words, gasped to Sebastian, are: Gunpowder. Here.

Gunpowder? And here, where?

With a killer continuing to stalk the halls, side by side, Sebastian and Antonia search for answers and, all the while, the childhood connection that had always existed between them strengthens and blooms…into something so much more.

First volume in a trilogy. A historical romance with gothic overtones layered over a continuing intrigue. A full length novel of 99,000 words.

Praise for the works of Stephanie Laurens

“Stephanie Laurens’ heroines are marvelous tributes to Georgette Heyer: feisty and strong.” Cathy Kelly

“Stephanie Laurens never fails to entertain and charm her readers with vibrant plots, snappy dialogue, and unforgettable characters.” Historical Romance Reviews

“Stephanie Laurens plays into readers’ fantasies like a master and claims their hearts time and again.” Romantic Times Magazine

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4,7

32 отзыва

Kun SenRick

12 марта 2017 г.

The main characters of the novel The Lady By His Side are the eldest son of Devil Duke of St. Ives and the eldest daughter of Gyles Rawlings Earl of Chillingworth. Therefore, from the novel with such charismatic protagonists, I expected more. Pros of the novel: 1. bright colorful covers, reflecting the character of the heroes of the novel; 2. cognitive maps of the locality and the scheme of the house; 3. An accurate geographical description of the area; 4. detailed description of the appearance and physique of the protagonists, their similarity with parents; 5. At the end of the novel there is a bit of humor that for the novels of Stephanie Laurens is very rare; 6. I was intrigued by the image of the villain who is behind this diabolical scheme with gunpowder; 7. A very good historical background has been chosen, with a complex political situation, and the national struggle, and the economic protests of this period показываются в романе. Cons of the novel: 1. terribly annoying chip Stephanie Laurence about dvadat nine-year-old virgin with debauched behavior, which very much wants to marry, so in one novel, is by force drags the man into bed and makes to do with her love (Lucilla Cynster), in another novel, sucks the guy to drag his bed and marry him (Miss Henrietta Cynster), in this novel, Lady Antonia Rawlings climbs into the bed of Sebastian Cynster and saddles him; 2. The hackneyed cliche for describing the love scenes, which in the novels of Stephanie Laurens are repeated in every book, so reading it becomes boring and uninteresting; 3. I did not see the love between the characters, only lust. They had a perennial acquaintance, but how it grew into love, this author shown не сумел, although the potential for this was huge, can was necessary to show by the grain the interaction between them in the first novels of the series Cynsters Next Generation, then use not one scene from their past, but several episodes where to show how feelings grow, but they are afraid to show them, so either hide them deep inside yourself like Antonia or like Sebastian close them with another facade. 4. The interaction with other members of the families of the main heroes is not shown, the members of the Cynster family are completely absent, there is no description of the younger brothers and sister Antonia, its relation to them. The author only notes the similarity of the protagonists with the parents. But as far as I understand it is a family saga, where the main thing is the interaction within families, the description of their feelings and actions towards each other, mutual assistance, and after reading The Lady By His Side, it seems that our heroes are without a genus, without a tribe.

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Stephanie Laurens was born in Sri Lanka, which was at the time the British colony of Ceylon. Her family moved to Melbourne, Australia, where she eventually received a Ph.D in biochemistry. She and her husband moved to London for four years where they worked as research scientists. They returned to Melbourne where she worked in the field of cancer research and eventually ran her own research laboratory. She began writing romance novels as a hobby, but due to her success she became a full-time novelist. Her first book, Tangled Reins, was published in 1992. Her other works include the Cynster Family series, the Cynster Sisters series, and the Bastion Club series. Stephanie's book's, By Winter's Light and The Lady By His Side made the New York Times bestseller list.

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