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    Felicity's Folly

    By Marilyn Clay

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    Left without a sixpence at three-and-twenty, Felicity Rhoades has vowed never to marry again. Instead, she intends to become a woman of independent means by taking in boarders. The “boarding house” is Rhoades Arbor, Felicity’s late husband’s grand estate; her “lodgers” will be England’s hoi polloi; and her first guest is none other than a titled gentleman!

    Unfortunately, the best-laid plans are going to the ghosts! The Earl of Maitland arrives pursued by a headless horseman! Felicity’s other boarders turn out to be a pair of eccentric spinsters and a psychic. Strange noises are causing all the guests consternation. Someone is digging up the garden every night; and whenever the charming earl is near, Felicity becomes giddy.

    As for the earl, he thinks Felicity is quite balmy but and very beautiful. Yet every time he tires to embrace her, things go bump in the night. Something very odd is happening at Rhoades Arbor and it may lead a landlady and a captivated earl into the shadowy unknown when a buried secret reveals the most thrilling mystery of all...love!

    “A very unusual plot! Unbelievably funny! I laughed out loud more than once!” – Regency author, Melissa Frederick.

    “Filled with Jane Austen-like characters, Ms. Clay writing and characterization are excellent!”– Bestselling historical author, Patricia Rice.

    MARILYN CLAY is a multi-published author and respected historian of the Regency period. A former University editor for the University of Texas at Dallas, for sixteen years, Marilyn Clay published and edited The Regency Plume Newsletter, an international newsletter containing well-researched articles useful to writers, historians and people interested in the 18th and early 19th centuries in English history.

    Historical essays by Marilyn Clay appear in Encyclopedia of Romanticism: Culture in Britain, 1780s – 1830s published by Garland Books.

    Ms. Clay recent historical suspense novels include DECEPTIONS: A Jamestown Novel and SECRETS AND LIES: A Jamestown Novel, both released in hardcover from Thomson/Gale in 2010 and 2012 and now available in print from major on-line retailers and as e-books. THE LETTER, also set in Jamestown was released in both print and e-book formats. BETSY ROSS: ACCIDENTAL SPY recently published by Mayfair Mysteries, was simultaneously released in print and e-book formats, and is also available from major on-line retailers and for various e-readers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMarilyn Clay
    Release dateOct 18, 2012
    ISBN9781301333462
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