Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan

It had just been the best bad idea out of a truly rotten lot. Technically, she had known it was a bad idea the moment it came to mind. She was beginning to think this entire scheme had been a very bad idea. Waiting in the parlor for half an hour with her doubts eating away at her certainty had not been a mistake, even though she had spent the entire time wondering if the reason she’d not been offered tea or refreshments was because the target already knew the truth. Nor was it the coin she’d spent-money she could ill afford-on hiring a cart to come to this large country house that belonged to one Mrs. It wasn’t the taxing journey from London. Miss Violetta Beauchamps had made a terrible mistake. Surrey County, England, late autumn, 1867 Sometime villains really are bad and wrong, and sometimes, we want them to suffer a lot of consequences. The Terrible Nephew is terrible, and terrible things happen to him because he deserves them. If she makes Terrible Men angry and wins the hand of a lovely lady in the process? Those are just added bonuses.Īuthor's Note: Sometimes I write villains who are subtle and nuanced.

But she hatches another plan-to make her nephew sorry, to make Miss Violetta smile, and to have the finest adventure of all time. Martin isn't about to start giving damns, not even for someone as intriguing as Miss Violetta. The Terrible Nephew is living in her rooming house, and Violetta wants him gone. Then proper, correct Miss Violetta Beauchamps, a sprightly young thing of nine and sixty, crashes into her life. Bertrice Martin-a widow, some seventy-three years young-has kept her youthful-ish appearance with the most powerful of home remedies: daily doses of spite, regular baths in man-tears, and refusing to give so much as a single damn about her Terrible Nephew.

Mrs. Martin’s Incomparable Adventure by Courtney Milan