The Goode Girls by Kerrigan Byrne EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Kerrigan Byrne
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LONDON, 1880, TWENTY-FIVE YEARS LATER
Prudence no longer desired to be good.
Or, rather, to be a Goode.
It was why she stood at the gate to Miss Henrietta’s School for Cultured
Young Ladies at midnight, her chest heaving and her resolve crumbling.
She’d come all this way. And she wanted this. Didn’t she?
Just one last night of freedom. One night of her own making. Her own
choosing.
One night of pleasure before her father foisted her off on the highestranking noble desperate enough to have her at nine and twenty.
Three months. Three months until her life was irreparably ruined, and
she’d have to love, honor, and obey the most notorious spirit-swilling,
mistress-having, loud-mouthed, and fractious idiot in all Blighty.
George Hamby-Forsyth, the sixth Earl of Sutherland.
He’d marry her because she’d an obscene enough dowry to cover his
debts and still maintain a generation or two.
Not because he loved her.
God, what a fool she’d been!
For the umpteenth time, the tragedy of her gullible nature slapped her
until her cheeks burned. Had it only been yesterday she’d found out her
happy engagement was a farce? That everyone around her knew she would
be wretched and humiliated, and still expected her to go through with it?
That the two people closest to her in the world hadn’t loved her enough
to tell her.
The scene forever tormented her, illuminated just as clearly as it had
been in the brightness of the late afternoon sun the day before. Every
decision she’d made a perfect mix of timing and luck until she’d stumbled
upon her own tragedy.
Pru had been pleasantly exhausted after spending a day with the
seamstresses for her extensively fine wedding trousseau. Her sister Honoria
had accompanied her, along with their oldest friend and neighbor, Mrs.
Amanda Brighton of the Farley-Downs Brightons.
“Do let’s go to Hyde Park,” Pru had gestured expansively toward the
park in question, shaking Amanda’s arm in her eagerness. “I’m dying to
sweep by Rotten Row and take a few turns on Oberon.”
“I’m game for it.” Honoria, her eldest—already married—sister, had
lifted her nose and squinted into the distance where the horse track
colloquially known as Rotten Row bustled with the empire’s aristocracy,
both human and equine.
Amanda was more Honoria’s age than Pru’s—which was three years
older—but she and Amanda shared a blithe and energetic nature that made
them natural mischief-makers and thereby the swiftest of friends.
Honoria, though a beauty, was born to be a dreary proper matron, and
fulfilled her vocation with dreadful aplomb.
“I wouldn’t at all mind examining the new stags on the market,”
Amanda said with a sprightly grin lifting her myriad of freckles. She tucked
one arm into Pru’s and the other into Honoria’s, and nearly dragged them
both toward the square.
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