Series: My Stand Alone Publisher: HarperCollins. But here that truly is the best thing about the very enjoyable story that is That Scandalous Evening. New York Times bestselling author Christina Dodd spins the captivating tale of a nobleman whose path crosses again with the one woman he absolutely cannot resist. But to Blackburn, Jane's unwitting model, the cool, reticent spinster is still a challenge. Christina Dodd and indeed many of her contemporaries delight in bringing us female characters who show strength and independence in the mans world that was the Regency era. A Gentleman Revealed Now, a decade later, she's back in London, as a chaperone to her beautiful niece. When the likeness was exposed, along with Miss Jane Higgenbothem's secret tendre for Lord Blackburn, the ton's gleeful contempt sent the lady back to the country in disgrace. A Lady Concealed An innocent English miss conceived of it, her hands gliding across the clay, delineating each smoothly defined muscle and sinew, creating a sculpture of the man she worshipped. 'That Scandalous Evening' is a fabulous historical romance set in Regency London. Product Description: A Disastrous Season A simple statue began the scandal.
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It all seems terribly sinister, but it's not so much. The novel opens on a mysterious note, as police (and an author named Edward Ormondroyd) investigate the disappearance of young Susan Shaw. It was most certainly the first book that made me fall in love with the idea of time travel and with nostalgia as a state of being. One of those favorites was Edward Ormondroyd's " Time at the Top," a slim little volume that packed quite a wallop for me. When I read those books now, as an adult, the words travel through me like an echo. This is to say, I know them intuitively, with a kind of muscle memory. I know these books in the way I know the route from my house to my son's school, the location of the silverware in my kitchen, the particular sounds of a spring morning. Still, certain books have stayed so alive in my memory that I can recall their plots as vividly as if I read them yesterday. Rather, I owe it to the experience of empowerment that learning to read bestowed on me. 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