![]() Moreover, he’s presumably a Tory, embodying everything that radical Cornelia loathes. When Rafe knocks on Cornelia’s door after 20 years apart, Cornelia perceives him as an unwelcome reminder of monogamy’s strictures. ![]() Only one man knows that her flight was built on an (extremely implausible) Gretna Green elopement-Rafe Goodwood, her white groom, now elevated to Rosemere’s dukedom by a string of Spinal Tap–worthy fatal mischances befalling all other possible heirs. Mixed-race orphan Cornelia was raised as the Duke of Rosemere’s ward until she was compromised at 18 and fled a forced marriage for Italy to build an art career. ![]() Peckham joyfully revisits the society-flouting women of Regency England’s Society of Sirens, moving away from the heavy gothic tone of the first installment, The Rakess, to introduce portraitist Cornelia Ludgate. ![]()
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