The Basra Pearls: A Victorian Novel (Voices of Victorian Women) - 6688

A marriage of convenience becomes a dynamic partnership that just may keep an innocent man from being hung. Millie is ruined, without being sure what she did wrong. One simple carriage ride with the wrong man and her prospects at marriage are whisked away. All hope of leaving her overbearing mother is lost, until her best friend offers to help her by way of marriage, and life in London. When her husband is hired by an incompetent barrister to investigate who killed an Earl, his career in London may be over before it has begun. Worse, the young man being held in Newgate Prison as a scapegoat, will be hung if the case goes to court. What was once a playful childhood game using ruses and subterfuge, has trained Millie to squirm her way into the disturbing lives of the nobility. Is Millie clever enough to unearth the secrets of the British Quality in time? Along the way, will Millie heal enough to value her childhood friendship turned marriage as more than just a way to free herself from scandal?
ASIN: 1733940790
VSKU: BVV.1733940790.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Hart, Kate L.|Leya, Angel
Binding: Paperback