Jill the Reckless

Freddie Rooke knows a poached egg can expose a man’s ruin—and this morning it looks so much like an old aunt that he has it taken away.

In a fog-bound London breakfast room, Sir Derek Underhill calmly faces kedgeree while Freddie nurses the aftermath of a party and a much graver worry: Derek’s mother is arriving from the Riviera. Derek has told her he is engaged to Jill Mariner, a girl she has never met, and tonight the two women are to be introduced. Freddie, who fears Lady Underhill more than a wounded tiger, is certain the meeting could use a whole gang of allies. But what will Jill’s first encounter with her formidable future mother-in-law bring?

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