An Affair for Aumont

An Affair for Aumont (2022) J.A. Rock & Lisa Henry (The Lords of Bucknall Club, #5)

A principal officer didn’t pay his rent by preventing crime, but by punishing it.

He thought, as he always did, of France. His deep love of her. His deep hatred of her. The gin didn’t help him untangle those two things—it never did—but it got him drunk enough to stop caring that he couldn’t.

“Do your bruises hurt a great deal?”

Not enough. No physical injury ever hurt enough. “I hardly feel them.”

“We are not born with a finite amount of happiness, I don’t think. We lose and find it in strange places, all throughout our lives.”

He had, until now, thought Aumont’s loyalty to Luke admirable. But it was not. It was merely the scab over a wound that Aumont had dedicated the rest of his life to pulling open again and again.

Characters: Louis-Charles Aumont Marquis de Montespan, George Darling, Teddy Honeyfield, Philip Winthrop Viscount Soulden, Surgeon Edmund Fernside, Lord Christmas Gale, Benjamin Chant, William Hartwell Marquess of Danbury, Joseph Warrington, Mr. Morgan Notley, Loftus Rivingdon, Agnes Crauford, Luke Winthrop, John Darling, Mary Darling, Hector Darling, Annette, Mr. Foster, The Apostle, Mr. Anthony Lawrence, Mr. Matthew Lawrence, Mr. Stephen Lawrence, Mr. Darby, Mrs. Norton, Mrs. Johnson, Lord Stratford

Cover Art by Mitxeran

Rating: 8.5/10

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