A Sanctuary for Soulden

A Sanctuary for Soulden (2021) J.A. Rock & Lisa Henry (The Lords of Bucknall Club #4)

Soulden, who smiled vacantly in public, not wishing to give anyone the impression there was anything between his ears but a faint and pleasant breeze, craved a midnight sky and solitude.

Philip was still breathing, he noted with some satisfaction. He took his patient’s right arm and drew it upward, so that the hand lay above the man’s head.

“Jesus! Are you trying to fucking murder me?”

“Wonderful,” Fernside murmured. “You’re not dead yet.”

“My father wears a set of false teeth. Expensive things, wondrously made. Do you know what they call them? Waterloo teeth. I asked him once if he ever wondered if it was my brother’s teeth rattling around in his skull now.”
…
“I became a viscount when my brother died, you see, and Father got new teeth.

“It does no good to think that way.”

“I do not care if it does any good. I think that way.”

Soulden was, in the eyes of the ton, quite the catch of the Season—which reflected, he felt, quite badly on everyone involved.
…
(H)e’d spent years playing a total fool at best, and a rake and a cad at worst, and it was truly disturbing the number of parents who were prepared to overlook all of that in their eagerness to shove their eligible children at him.

Characters: Philip Winthrop Viscount Soulden, Surgeon Edmund Fernside, Lord Christmas Gale, Benjamin Chant, William Hartwell Marquess of Danbury, Joseph Warrington, Mr. Morgan Notley, Loftus Rivingdon, Fitz, Louis-Charles Aumont, George Darling, Gubbins, Lord Stratford, M. Verreau, Agnes, Burlington, Viscount Melville, Lightholder, Crauford, Agnes Crauford, Luke Winthrop, Catherine Winthrop, Augustus Winthrop

Cover Art by Mitxeran

Rating: 8/10

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