Virtue’s Lady: The Southwark Saga, Book 2,
Virtue’s Lady, the second volume in Jessica Cale’s Southwark Saga, resumes the story of beautiful young Lady Jane Ramsey. She has been rescued from a kidnapping by a handsome highwayman named Mark Virtue, and is now returned to her normal life, where she is facing her father’s plan to marry her off to the oily Lord Lewes, who is the exact opposite of Mark in every way.
Mark himself has decided to abandon his criminal ways and take up carpentry in the rough-hewn Southwark district of London in the wake of the Great Fire of 1666. But even separated and intent on new lives, the two cannot forget each other, and Lady Jane acts on her obsession, traveling to Southwark and finding Mark, who is outraged at the idea of a well-born lady exposing herself to the crime-slum of the place.
Just as in the first volume (which probably ought to be read before this one), Cale delivers sparkling dialogue and character-play, and her two main characters are as delightful as ever.
