Slightly Shady

Amanda Quick
aka Jayne Ann Krentz

Mrs.Lavinia Lake and her niece were running a store in Rome the first time they met Tobias March. He came in, told them their lives were in danger, ruined their store, and shipped them off to London within a hour or so. Now she and Emmaline are back in London and she needs work if she wants to get Emmaline out and introduced to the ton.

Lavinia decides to take up the work Mr. March had described that he did - she would investigate for people. Someone tries to blackmail her over the Rome incident. While trying to retrieve the diary with the information, she stumbles over a body and Tobias March. The blackmailer is dead and someone else now has the diary. Both her new client and his client are looking for the missing diary, so they have to work together. Lavinia and Tobias quarrel constantly. But it takes a while for them to realize there is more attraction there. Can they keep their clients alive while they work through their relationship?

I have only recently started reading Jayne Ann Krentz' historical romances she writes under the pseudonym Amanda Quick. I listened to it with Barbara Rosenblat reading. I think Rosenblat's voice improves any book she reads. Slightly Shady doesn't have the pull and tension that many of the author's novels usually have. The wax works studies are an interesting twist to keep the book moving. The book is enjoyable enough, and probably better read after reading other books by this author under whichever persona she is using at the time.

Notice: Strong sexual content

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