{"id":27991,"date":"2026-11-08T20:41:40","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T01:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=27991"},"modified":"2026-11-08T20:41:40","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T01:41:40","slug":"an-affair-for-aumont-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/27991","title":{"rendered":"An Affair for Aumont"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Affair for Aumont<\/em><\/a> (2022) J.A. Rock<\/a> & Lisa Henry<\/a> (The Lords of Bucknall Club, #5)<\/p>\n

\"An<\/a><\/p>\n

A principal officer didn\u2019t pay his rent by preventing crime, but by punishing it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He thought, as he always did, of France. His deep love of her. His deep hatred of her. The gin didn\u2019t help him untangle those two things\u2014it never did\u2014but it got him drunk enough to stop caring that he couldn\u2019t.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cDo your bruises hurt a great deal?\u201d <\/p>\n

Not enough. No physical injury ever hurt enough. \u201cI hardly feel them.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u201cWe are not born with a finite amount of happiness, I don\u2019t think. We lose and find it in strange places, all throughout our lives.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He had, until now, thought Aumont\u2019s 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Characters<\/strong>: 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<\/p>\n

Cover Art by Mitxeran<\/p>\n

Rating: 8.5\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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