Lady Chance (Regency Ladies in Distress, Book 2)
Shannon Donnelly’s “Regency Ladies in Distress” series continues with this lively, fast-paced story of Diana, Lady Chauncey, known as “Lady Chance,” whose barbed wit and skill at cards give her easy access to the fashionable salons where traitors can lurk.
After the restoration of the Bourbon monarchy, the Paris of 1814 is swarming with such traitors and would-be assassins, and Lady Chance is recruited by her cousin and the Black Cabinet, a group dedicated to stopping them, and in the course of her adventures, she encounters a charismatic French officer from her past, a man she thought dead.
Donnelly handles this mixture of Regency romance and espionage thriller with smooth ease and an excellent ear for dramatic dialogue. Add to that, the element of understated wit throughout is well played.
