The Telling Touch
Meg Summers has loved Nick Ainsley all her life, but he longs for her elder sister, Isabelle. When Isabelle elopes with Nick’s uncle, the earl, Nick departs for a six-year sojourn in China, and Meg is left alone to face the scandal that shadows her name. Plucky Meg finds refuge in writing an amusing gossip column under a masculine pen name, but when Nick returns to Pevensey, Meg fears she’ll lose her old friend, the new earl, to Isabelle’s manipulations. For the Summers sisters share a sinister gift: they can “read” a person’s thoughts merely by touching them. And when she suspects that Isabelle has learned not just to detect other peoples’ wills, but manipulate them, Meg has to bring all her talents to bear to save the man she loves from destruction.
Meg’s supernatural abilities add an intriguing twist to this engaging Regency romance. The characters are developed and dimensional, and Meg’s care for others—including the young men caught up in a local smuggling ring—make her lively and endearing. Even Isabelle reveals depths to her villainy, and Nick matures as a character as he realizes which sister he really loves. A thoroughly enchanting romance.
