{"id":12787,"date":"2020-04-22T18:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T22:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=12787"},"modified":"2025-10-01T17:40:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T21:40:21","slug":"the-countess-conspiracy-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/12787","title":{"rendered":"The Countess Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Countess Conspiracy<\/a><\/em> (2013) Courtney Milan<\/a> (Brothers Sinister)<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>Set in England in 1867.<\/p>\n

Violet Waterfield, Countess of Cambury, has been keeping secrets all her life. But this secret belongs also to her best friend, Sebastian, and he is done with this secret.<\/p>\n

He\u2019d agreed to this charade years ago, when he hadn\u2019t understood what would happen. When it had just meant signing his name and listening to Violet talk, two things that had seemed like no effort at all.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There are so many different parts to this story, and I love all of them. Sebastian and Violet. Violet & her mother. Sebastian & his brother. And science. (SCIENCE!)<\/p>\n

But at the heart is Sebastian and Violet bickering and bantering.<\/p>\n

\u201cDon\u2019t worry,\u201d Sebastian told Violet\u2019s niece. \u201cI\u2019ll try not to seduce you on the spot.\u201d <\/p>\n

Violet felt a headache starting to form, sharp little pinpricks in her forehead. \u201cSebastian, you can\u2019t talk of seduction to my unmarried niece.\u201d <\/p>\n

Another man might have blushed and apologized. But Sebastian just gave her a cocky smile and a wink. \u201cI wasn\u2019t talking of seduction,\u201d he said. \u201cI was talking of not seduction, which, as I\u2019m sure you have surmised, is the exact opposite of seduction.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s specious,\u201d Violet retorted. \u201cIf I asked you not to talk of elephants and you wandered around bellowing about not-elephants, you\u2019d be mentioning elephants with every breath. The column of all things that are not elephants includes marsupials, canines\u2014\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe column of everything that is not an elephant does not include not-elephants?\u201d he inquired, innocently examining his nails. \u201cThat\u2019s counter-intuitive.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cThe column of conversational topics,\u201d Violet stressed, \u201cthat are not elephant related does not include a discussion of the elephant-shaped hole in the conversation!\u201d <\/p>\n

Amanda was watching them with a quizzical look on her face. \u201cGood heavens,\u201d she said in awe, turning to Sebastian. \u201cYou\u2019re good at that. You distracted Aunt Violet into an irrelevant argument without even lifting a finger.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I love this book.
\nRating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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He\u2019d agreed to this charade years ago, when he hadn\u2019t understood what would […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,30,668,48,33,742,41,26,56],"tags":[50,719,128,729,607,557],"class_list":["post-12787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-10","category-british","category-comfort-read","category-female","category-historical","category-physical-health","category-reread","category-romance","category-sexual-content","tag-boinking","tag-brothers-sinister","tag-courtney-milan","tag-industrial-revolution","tag-miscarriage","tag-victorian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-3kf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24335,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24335","url_meta":{"origin":12787,"position":0},"title":"The Countess Conspiracy","author":"Michelle","date":"March 25, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Countess Conspiracy (2013) Courtney Milan (Brothers Sinister #3) Set in Cambridge in 1867 \"...the chance that a male cat will show tortoiseshell coloring is so small we cannot calculate it\u2014one in a thousand, perhaps. 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