{"id":21734,"date":"2023-03-21T11:50:07","date_gmt":"2023-03-21T15:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=21734"},"modified":"2025-10-01T18:50:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T22:50:04","slug":"a-dangerous-madness-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/21734","title":{"rendered":"A Dangerous Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3LG00DR\">A Dangerous Madness<\/a><\/em> (2014) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/romance\/Diener_Michelle.php\">Michelle Diener<\/a> (Regency London)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3LG00DR\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/A-Dangerous-Madness-e1510885658255.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Dangerous Madness\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5764\" \/><\/a>Set in England in 1812<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Phoebe\u2019s betrothed&#8217;s forceful whisper was as loud as her soft-spoken question, but she bit her tongue. <\/p>\n<p>She wondered what her tongue would look like after they\u2019d spent a lifetime together. Maybe one day she\u2019d bite it in half.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>She ached to break the rules, to heave off the yoke of polite manners that kept her small and cowed and unable to follow her inclinations. But the cruel joke was she did not want to be alone, either. Did not want to be a social pariah.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Impotent rage, her old friend, ran a familiar hand down her back and she stiffened under its hot, prickly fingers. Why shouldn&#8217;t she speak with someone? With whomever she pleased? She was twenty-four years old, responsible, intelligent. <\/p>\n<p>She had all but accepted the anger and the frustration as constant companions, but Sheldrake cutting her free, the incidents of the last day, opened her eyes to how big they had grown, hulking beasts that rubbed up against her. Crowding her and making her life smaller.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Dangerous Madness (2014) Michelle Diener (Regency London) Set in England in 1812 Phoebe\u2019s betrothed&#8217;s forceful whisper was as loud as her soft-spoken question, but she bit her tongue. She wondered what her tongue would look like after they\u2019d spent a lifetime together. Maybe one day she\u2019d bite it in half. She ached to break [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[191,30,668,190,292,33,8,41,26],"tags":[874,251,547,252,875],"class_list":["post-21734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-8-5-10","category-british","category-comfort-read","category-cozy","category-ebook","category-historical","category-mystery","category-reread","category-romance","tag-john-bellingham","tag-michelle-diener","tag-napoleonic-era","tag-regency-london","tag-spenser-percival"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-5Ey","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14161,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/14161","url_meta":{"origin":21734,"position":0},"title":"A Dangerous Madness","author":"Michelle","date":"March 31, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"A Dangerous Madness (2014) Michelle Diener (Regency London) Set in London in May 1812, around the actual historical events of the assassination of the Prime Minister. 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