MY SEASON OF SCANDAL (THE PALACE OF ROGUES #7) BY JULIE ANNE LONG – eBook Details Online
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Catherine Keating knew she was giddier than she ought to be for eleven
o’clock at night on a Thursday evening, but she’d ordered a cup of tea
anyway, just because she could, just for the delightful novelty of having it
brought right to the door of her boardinghouse room on a tray by a maid
named Dot.
Go to London and make all the young men fall in love with you, her
father had said.
Catherine frankly liked her chances.
Her dresses might be two seasons old, but she had new handkerchiefs,
new gloves, and, thanks to the skillful social maneuverings of a certain
Lady Wisterberg, more than a half dozen or so invitations to the season’s
balls and assemblies. And while she might not have much of a dowry, she
did have her lucky necklace that had once been her mother’s—a single pearl
on a gold chain—and her mother’s eyes—wide spaced, sky blue. What
more did a girl need?
The plan had been impulsively hatched at a Lancashire house party a few
months prior by Lady Wisterberg and Cat’s Aunt Keating, who had been
delighted when Catherine and Lucy Morrow, Lady Wisterberg’s
goddaughter, had got on famously. As Lucy had been staying with Lady
Wisterberg in her crowded-with-relatives London town house, Catherine
and her aunt had written to arrange for a pair of rooms at The Grand Palace
on the Thames, a boardinghouse described by their village vicar, Mr.
Bellingham, as Elysium by the London docks. The food! The company! The
chandelier! he’d rhapsodized.
But much like the thrilling plot twist in The Ghost in the Attic, the story
fellow guest Mrs. Pariseau had read aloud to the others in the
boardinghouse sitting room this evening, at the very last minute Cat’s greataunt badly sprained her ankle and couldn’t make the journey. Cat had
reconciled herself to staying home.
Her father had insisted she go anyway. I’d like to see you settled, Cat. I
won’t be here for forever.
It wasn’t a platitude. Her father was a physician, intimately familiar with
the tricky intricacies of the human body and the infinite variety of ways in
which it could fail, and his was failing. They both knew there was a reason
he now needed to pause on the landing to get his breath as he went up the
stairs, and why he struggled to travel miles in the dead of night to deliver a
baby or sit by a dying man’s bed.
It was his heart. He and everyone who
knew him had long taken for granted that his was as roomy, battered but
indestructible as the old leather bag he carried with him when he went to his
patients. But they’d buried her mother five years ago—she’d died after a
short illness. And Cat suspected her mother had been half the reason her
father’s heart beat at all.
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