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Category: Books & Literature
Comments: It's a historical fantasy romance with mystery elements set in 1780s England and Ireland. What's not to love?
A Widow in Waiting is the first and thus far only installment in this quartet. The title character is Eleanor de Maine, Lady Farnton, whose husband died in an incident in the village of Glenscar in County Wexford, Ireland. One mystery throughout the book is what exactly happened; the truth of it is not for public consumption, in part to protect those directly involved, but in larger part to protect the village as a whole. Glenscar is a place where people with magical powers can live openly without fear, and those powers were involved in Lord Farnton's death: sight twisting to disguise the highwayman who stopped the Farntons' carriage; true dreaming to tell John Marlowe, the local landowners' son, that Eleanor would be in need of rescue from her husband; persuasion, first to compel Eleanor to marry Lord Farnton (a spell that broke when ( ... )
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