Chasing the Rebel
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
France, 1791
Marcus, Lord Rothbury, is on the run. Part of a foiled plot to help King Louis and Queen Marie Antoinette escape to Switzerland, he's searching for the jewels the rebels stole from the queen—jewels that, when sold in England, will buy the monarchs' freedom and restore the aristocratic order Marcus holds dear.
Pamphleteer James Lockhart publicly condemns the monarchy and has his own plans for the jewels—selling them to help the Parisian poor. But when the two are thrown together against a common adversary, Marcus finds himself increasingly attracted to the impetuous American.
As they hunt for the jewels, Marcus begins to suspect his companion isn't all he seems. Secretive and changeable, James could be playing a double game, and Marcus can't be sure who James is fighting against—the enemy, or the man who's fallen in love with him.
64,000 words
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The battle of desire versus self-denial is always a winner, and never more so than in Flynn's frothy French Revolution romp. Repressed English aristocrat Marcus Rothbury is on the trail of Marie Antoinette's stolen jewels. He reluctantly enters into a partnership with James Lockhart, an American anti-Royalist who recently shared his bed. This delicious queer pastiche of The Scarlet Pimpernel is light on plot and heavy on simmering sexual tension. The twists are predictable and the happy ending is never in question, but Flynn captures Rothbury's moral dilemma the question of whether there's more to life than duty with a deft touch. Lockhart is more of a cipher, but he's as appealing to the reader as he is to his sometime lover. What their romance lacks in dramatic potential, it more than makes up for in heated glances and stolen touches.
