{"id":27989,"date":"2026-11-08T20:29:30","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T01:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=27989"},"modified":"2026-11-08T20:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T01:31:33","slug":"a-sanctuary-for-soulden-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/27989","title":{"rendered":"A Sanctuary for Soulden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>A Sanctuary for Soulden <\/em> (2021) <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/Rock_JA.php\">J.A. Rock<\/a> &#038; <a href=\"https:\/\/klishis.com\/Books\/mystery\/Henry_Lisa.php\">Lisa Henry<\/a> (The Lords of Bucknall Club #4)<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/A-Sanctuary-for-Soulden.jpg?resize=188%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Sanctuary for Soulden\" width=\"188\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-19847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/A-Sanctuary-for-Soulden.jpg?resize=188%2C300&amp;ssl=1 188w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/klishis.com\/reading\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/A-Sanctuary-for-Soulden.jpg?w=313&amp;ssl=1 313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 188px) 100vw, 188px\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Philip was still breathing, he noted with some satisfaction. He took his patient\u2019s right arm and drew it upward, so that the hand lay above the man\u2019s head. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJesus! Are you trying to fucking murder me?\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWonderful,\u201d Fernside murmured. \u201cYou\u2019re not dead yet.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMy 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\u2019s teeth rattling around in his skull now.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;I became a viscount when my brother died, you see, and Father got new teeth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt does no good to think that way.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do not care if it does any good. I think that way.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Soulden was, in the eyes of the ton, quite the catch of the Season\u2014which reflected, he felt, quite badly on everyone involved.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n(H)e\u2019d 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Characters<\/strong>: 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<\/p>\n<p>Cover Art by Mitxeran<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rating: 8\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Sanctuary for Soulden (2021) J.A. Rock &#038; 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[27,30,938,292,204,33,207,8,148,41,26,56],"tags":[50,213,816,739,579,544],"class_list":["post-27989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternate-history","category-british","category-dual-point-of-view","category-ebook","category-good","category-historical","category-mental-health-rep","category-mystery","category-queer","category-reread","category-romance","category-sexual-content","tag-boinking","tag-grief","tag-j-a-rock","tag-lisa-henry","tag-lords-of-bucknall-club","tag-mm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piQkW-7hr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24323,"url":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/24323","url_meta":{"origin":27989,"position":0},"title":"A Sanctuary for Soulden","author":"Michelle","date":"March 14, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"A Sanctuary for Soulden (2021) J.A. 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