An Affair with Mr. Kennedy
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3.8 • 5 Ratings
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
A scorching Victorian-era romance featuring a stoic Scotland Yard investigator and a beautiful painter—the debut novel from 2010 Golden Heart Award winner Jillian Stone.
Detective Zeno “Zak” Kennedy is considered a hero in London after breaking up a plot against the Crown. But villainy never sleeps, and he’s now after a ring of Irish anarchists plotting a bombing campaign. When he discovers that one of these treacherous lords is acquainted with his new tenant, widowed Cassie St. Cloud, he sets out to get closer to the lady. Cassie is no Victorian prude; the daughter of two prominent doctors, she is a freethinking artist and a volunteer at a girls’ school. She’s set her sights on her handsome new landlord, and soon they’re enmeshed in the most passionate affair of her life. But when she discovers that their meeting was not purely accidental, will she be able to forgive him?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
A Victorian-era Scotland Yard detective in pursuit of Irish anarchists romances a freethinking artist in this intriguing debut. Devastated by the death of his lover in an anarchist bombing, Det. Zeno "Zak" Kennedy is unprepared for his passionate attraction to his new tenant, the widowed impressionist painter Cassie St. Cloud. When he deliberately involves himself with her in order to investigate her deceased husband's connections with anarchist supporters, he endangers both her life and her heart. While suspense is minimal, Zak's case allows some effective action scenes, and humorous moments abound with Cassie and her equally broad-minded family, her fellow artists, and Zak's eccentric investigative colleagues. The satisfying romance featuring a genuinely original pair of lovers and sparkling supporting characters against an unusual social and political background is marred only by minor errors of historical detail and occasional overreliance on events in Zak's past.
