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Book Review By Susannah Spurr
A Woman Of Virtue by Liz Carlyle

Cecilia Markham-Sands Lorimer (later Countess of Walrafen) met David, Lord Delacourt under almost unpleasant circumstances. Namely he was drunk coming into the stables and thought she was a loose woman. Since she disliked him, Reverand Mr. Cole Amherst suggested she pretend to be engaged to Delacourt and later jilt him, which happened. Several years later, Cecilia is patroness of a charity mission and Inspector Maximillian de Rohan comes with news that they found Mary O'Gavin, who happened to be one of the girls she helps there, was murdered. Things go worse for Cecilia when Delacourt appears in her life as director of the mission on behalf of Reverand Mr. Amherst since his wife is ill. Later on another woman, who was a friend of Mary, is murdered. Cecilia and David try to find out why they were murdered and who did it, and along the way -- fall in love with each other.


Plot & Themes
Time/era of story
Action/suspense subplot? Yes
Action:
If one lover chases another... - he chases after her

Main Male Character
Profession/status:
Age/status: - 20's-30's

Main Female Character - 20's-30's
Profession/status:

Setting
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK
Misc setting - Fancy Mansion

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
What % of story is romance related? - 50%
How explicit is the sex? - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy
Focus of story - Her
How much dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
How much sexing? - 1-2 sex acts
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