She instead finds herself the target of lechers with unsuitable propositions, desperate fortune hunters, and worse. With rampant speculation about what she did in those almost twenty years she was MIA, however, the acceptable gentlemen in the Ton aren’t exactly tripping over to be introduced to her.
At thirty-two, almost thirty-three, she is certainly not going to be a diamond of first water in her first ever Season, but her father is determined to marry her off so that she will have some semblance of security in her future.
Euphemia Marlington is finally home in England after, being abducted by corsairs when she was just a teenage girl, spending seventeen years in Baba Hassan’s harem. Let’s get the story out of the way first. Perhaps the author does her job too well here: the hero, Adam de Courtney, doesn’t just have a name that makes me think, “Eeuw, fanfiction!” – he also creeps me out and I don’t like him at all. Good pacing, some strong undercurrents of melodramatic angst and violent romantic tension, and clean, confident, even polished narrative. Still, let’s just assume that this is the author’s first published story – and from a technical point of view, it’s quite solid. From my quick research online, this is Minerva Spencer’s debut effort, although given how these days there are authors who change pseudonym more frequently than they change their underwear, one can never be sure. Dangerous is of course the first book in a series, one called The Outcasts.
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