Lady In Waiting
by
Kathryn Caskie
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Warner, 2005 (2005)
Paperback
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Reviewed by Rashmi Srinivas
N
ot content with her lot as a mere maidservant, bastard-born Jenny Penny has always dreamt of mingling with society. When her fondness for buying trinkets and dressing in impeccable high fashion shows every sign of dragging her deep into debt, Jenny begins marketing a homebrewed facial cream which becomes instantly popular when the ladies discover its sensual '
nether
' applications.
S
tunned at her growing fame as '
Lady Eros
', anonymous creator of the '
tingle
' cream, Jenny's further discomfited when her mischievous employers, the aging matchmaking Featherton sisters, decide to pass her off as Lady Genevieve in Bath society. When she discovers they mean her to marry the handsome, enigmatic Scottish rake, Lord Argyll, Jenny's feeble protests fade completely. Attraction is instantaneous, and passion soon follows. But does love lies at the end of this twisting path? Even more important, will it survive when secrets come undone?
K
athryn Caskie delivers romantic escapism of the first order in
Lady In Waiting
. The bubbly, headstrong Jenny Penny, the happily meddlesome Featherton sisters, and the suitably anguished hero Lord Argyll, all keep readers enthralled with their motivations, machinations, and manipulations.
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