In Bed with a Spy
1815, Waterloo. Alastair Whitmore, Marquess of Angelstone, code name Angel, is mourning the recent murder of his first love at the hands of the Death Adders, a group of French agents. On the battlefield of Waterloo, Whitmore sees an avenging angel – a woman on horseback – slashing and felling her way through a band of French soldiers, killing each in her path. Her grief-maddened eyes and her soot-stained face haunt him long after the end of the conflict, though he fails to discover her identity.
Two years later: Lilias Fairchild followed the drum with her beloved husband. Widowed at Waterloo, she despises small talk and the social expectations forced on women. When she meets Angel at a party, she is unexpectedly attracted to him. Never one for propriety, she wonders if their affair would be one of pure lust or something else. When Angel finds a Death Adder symbol in Lilias’s possession, he investigates. Was she an agent or was there another explanation?
With In Bed with a Spy, the author keeps the reader guessing to the very end. She knows her way around a good plot, and her characters are often not what they seem; she writes an enjoyable romp peopled with spies, traitors and heroes. Recommended.
