{"id":24335,"date":"2025-03-25T16:34:36","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T20:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=24335"},"modified":"2026-03-22T09:01:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T13:01:43","slug":"the-countess-conspiracy-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24335","title":{"rendered":"The Countess Conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/the-countess-conspiracy\"><em>The Countess Conspiracy<\/em><\/a> (2013) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/romance\/milan_courtney.php\">Courtney Milan<\/a> (Brothers Sinister #3)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kobo.com\/us\/en\/ebook\/the-countess-conspiracy\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/The-Countess-Conspiracy.jpg?resize=200%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"The Countess Conspiracy\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4798\" \/><\/a>Set in Cambridge in 1867<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;the chance that a male cat will show tortoiseshell coloring is so small we cannot calculate it\u2014one in a thousand, perhaps. My theory provides no explanation for such smallness.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The woman\u2019s voice was beginning to rise in pitch, something Violet would not have believed possible. \u201cHe just boasted of his size in public. William, you\u2019re a constable. Do something.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDon\u2019t worry,\u201d Sebastian told Violet\u2019s niece. \u201cI\u2019ll try not to seduce you on the spot.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>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<p>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><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I\u2019m done trying to prove I deserve your respect. You\u2019d never grant it to me, no matter what I did.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Benedict drew back, his cheeks turning pink. \u201cWhat a terrible thing to say.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, it\u2019s terrible, all right. Imagine living it,\u201d Sebastian said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine growing up, knowing that the person whose good opinion you most wish to win has already deemed you good for nothing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Characters<\/strong>: Violet Waterfield the Countess of Cambury, Mr. Sebastian Malheur, Benedict Malheur, Lily Ellisford, Amanda Louise Ellisford, Dowager Baroness Rotherham, Simon Bollingall, Alice Bollingall, Robert Blaisdell the Duke of Clermont, Minerva Duchess of Clermont, Mr. Oliver Marshall, Jane Marshall<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Countess Conspiracy (2013) Courtney Milan (Brothers Sinister #3) Set in Cambridge in 1867 &#8220;&#8230;the chance that a male cat will show tortoiseshell coloring is so small we cannot calculate it\u2014one in a thousand, perhaps. My theory provides no explanation for such smallness.\u201d The woman\u2019s voice was beginning to rise in pitch, something Violet would [&hellip;]<\/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":[13,30,292,33,207,742,41,26,56,934],"tags":[621,50,719,128,729,607],"class_list":["post-24335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-10","category-british","category-ebook","category-historical","category-mental-health-rep","category-physical-health","category-reread","category-romance","category-sexual-content","category-trigger-warnings","tag-abuse","tag-boinking","tag-brothers-sinister","tag-courtney-milan","tag-industrial-revolution","tag-miscarriage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-6kv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12787,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/12787","url_meta":{"origin":24335,"position":0},"title":"The Countess Conspiracy","author":"Michelle","date":"April 22, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"The Countess Conspiracy (2013) Courtney Milan (Brothers Sinister) Set in England in 1867. 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And it\u2019s really not my sort of\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8.5\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8.5\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-5-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"The-Duchess-War","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/The-Duchess-War.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24331,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24331","url_meta":{"origin":24335,"position":5},"title":"The Duchess War","author":"Michelle","date":"March 23, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Duchess War (2012) Courtney Milan (Brothers Sinister #1) Set in Leicester, England in 1863 \u201cYour Grace,\u201d Stevens finally said, \u201cyour concern does you justice.\u201d The man\u2019s toad-eating did him none. Robert met Stevens\u2019s eyes. \u201cNo, it doesn\u2019t. It\u2019s called basic human decency, and I deserve no credit for doing\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;8\/10&quot;","block_context":{"text":"8\/10","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/category\/8-10"},"img":{"alt_text":"The Duchess War","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/The-Duchess-War.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}